Pith Number

pith:WTBEXKWS

pith:2012:WTBEXKWSUH5VY3Y4PCSPKNOX4N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The extremely low-metallicity tail of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy

Bertrand Lemasle, Eline Tolstoy, Else Starkenburg, Giuseppina Battaglia, Kim A. Venn, Leon Boschman, Lex Kaper, Mike J. Irwin, Pascale Jablonka, Patrick Francois, Paul Groot, Thomas J. L. de Boer, Vanessa Hill

arxiv:1211.4592 v2 · 2012-11-19 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WTBEXKWSUH5VY3Y4PCSPKNOX4N}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:53:02.757201Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4c24baad2a1fb5c6f1c78a4f535d7e36a9ba038a299c1ca3a16ca8ccc92282a

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.4592 · arxiv_version: 1211.4592v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.4592 · pith_short_12: WTBEXKWSUH5V · pith_short_16: WTBEXKWSUH5VY3Y4 · pith_short_8: WTBEXKWS

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/WTBEXKWSUH5VY3Y4PCSPKNOX4N \
  | 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: b4c24baad2a1fb5c6f1c78a4f535d7e36a9ba038a299c1ca3a16ca8ccc92282a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe068e065d8f2b7435909e160dfa52ca33ed5763f5f627a8b3cbd540edf891bd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-19T21:10:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba33e7c9a1588e3613460aa751ed466895a806bd7f106baae70fb327f28efb53"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.4592",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}