Pith Number

pith:WXMF7FQ5

pith:2018:WXMF7FQ5VN6VVD4DHRI56EBLRE

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On the Gaia DR2 distances for Galactic Luminous Blue Variables

Jeremiah W. Murphy, Jose H. Groh, Keivan G. Stassun, Maria R. Drout, Mojgan Aghakhanloo, Nathan Smith

arxiv:1805.03298 v2 · 2018-05-08 · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{WXMF7FQ5VN6VVD4DHRI56EBLRE}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:41:13.221119Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5d85f961dab7d5a8f833c51df102b89047cfd95fba23450884b993d6b08d230

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.03298 · arxiv_version: 1805.03298v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.03298 · pith_short_12: WXMF7FQ5VN6V · pith_short_16: WXMF7FQ5VN6VVD4D · pith_short_8: WXMF7FQ5

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/WXMF7FQ5VN6VVD4DHRI56EBLRE \
  | 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: b5d85f961dab7d5a8f833c51df102b89047cfd95fba23450884b993d6b08d230

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b9ce1d4ee1d9e65ad73da2e025dba53f5c4813ac9e9e9033101bfd898078ae4d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-08T21:38:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de5a022439649346edd583bd325dff3dce37d5b12894be2c020fa78beba87ddf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.03298",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}