Pith Number

pith:X5RPWETH

pith:2022:X5RPWETHJSUEXX7X6Y2CKP2V3E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Radcliffe Wave as the gas spine of the Orion Arm

Alyssa Goodman, Cameren Swiggum, Catherine Zucker, Elena D'Onghia, Eloisa Poggio, Jo\~ao Alves, John S. Gallagher III, Lekshmi Thulasidharan, Robert A. Benjamin, Ronald Drimmel

arxiv:2204.06003 v2 · 2022-04-12 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X5RPWETHJSUEXX7X6Y2CKP2V3E}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T05:03:36.875567Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf62fb12674ca84bdff7f634253f55d92b9d59afd96c1bd573597d283c93bc2a

Aliases

arxiv: 2204.06003 · arxiv_version: 2204.06003v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2204.06003 · pith_short_12: X5RPWETHJSUE · pith_short_16: X5RPWETHJSUEXX7X · pith_short_8: X5RPWETH

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/X5RPWETHJSUEXX7X6Y2CKP2V3E \
  | 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: bf62fb12674ca84bdff7f634253f55d92b9d59afd96c1bd573597d283c93bc2a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c687d471ef419c78bc769d527fe4eeda84f9b63d2f80d5db5f3fa720bdb4b33",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2022-04-12T18:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96460db7fc13fb86589c0d2f8a84dd98ca39a73b7500a40c729052952df1c289"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2204.06003",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}