Pith Number

pith:X46G4VPS

pith:2011:X46G4VPSHAYO7XH2FPQAA5UY6T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Milky Way Tomography IV: Dissecting Dust

Amy Kimball, Andrew J. Connolly, Branimir Sesar, Brian Yanny, Dan Long, David Schlegel, Dijana Vrbanec, Donald P. Schneider, Douglas Finkbeiner, Edward F. Schlafly, Gillian R. Knapp, J. Allyn Smith, James E. Gunn, Jillian Bellovary, John Barentine, Julianne Dalcanton, Jurek Krzesinski, Keira J. Brooks, Lynne Jones, Mario Juri\'c, Masataka Fukugita, Michael Berry, Nicholas A. Bond, Peter Yoachim, Robert R. Gibson, Sarah Loebman, Simon Krughoff, Steve Kent, Steven R. Majewski, Timothy C. Beers, \v{Z}eljko Ivezi\'c

arxiv:1111.4985 v1 · 2011-11-21 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X46G4VPSHAYO7XH2FPQAA5UY6T}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

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	2026-05-18T01:59:27.334490Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf3c6e55f23830efdcfa2be0007698f4fbaf215b29891c4817c916eedb6ad830

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.4985 · arxiv_version: 1111.4985v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.4985 · pith_short_12: X46G4VPSHAYO · pith_short_16: X46G4VPSHAYO7XH2 · pith_short_8: X46G4VPS

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/X46G4VPSHAYO7XH2FPQAA5UY6T \
  | 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: bf3c6e55f23830efdcfa2be0007698f4fbaf215b29891c4817c916eedb6ad830

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "861d2bcc8854460db73ff46ef3d04e1b1410bcdd1bb0e4779ffef84eaa7ccc01",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-21T19:50:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "938eb6cda5822920e5dc7a81f7853eecde748a502aad9f5b64f3947fecb69a62"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.4985",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}