Pith Number

pith:WOGAVKLX

pith:2015:WOGAVKLX4CQMMUZCU3A772ATBU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A tidally disrupting dwarf galaxy in the halo of NGC 253

Anil Seth, Brian McLeod, David Sand, Denija Crnojevic, Elisa Toloba, Jay Strader, Joshua Simon, Kristine Spekkens, Nelson Caldwell, Puragra Guhathakurta

arxiv:1512.03816 v1 · 2015-12-11 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WOGAVKLX4CQMMUZCU3A772ATBU}

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Record completeness

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:23:02.291189Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b38c0aa977e0a0c65322a6c1ffe8130d0e1ad952aafae5b2ec9dcb6b28348d60

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.03816 · arxiv_version: 1512.03816v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.03816 · pith_short_12: WOGAVKLX4CQM · pith_short_16: WOGAVKLX4CQMMUZC · pith_short_8: WOGAVKLX

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WOGAVKLX4CQMMUZCU3A772ATBU \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: b38c0aa977e0a0c65322a6c1ffe8130d0e1ad952aafae5b2ec9dcb6b28348d60

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23372df471fa37b60ea180fed5f93f56f9f04e0be8fd2a096584f5d9d7338a6e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-11T21:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6480f2b461e483da73248ad08d5d47af57d2e8c2b586e0be90ac16e066ff2cc8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.03816",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}