Pith Number

pith:X7AZERSB

pith:2003:X7AZERSB76P46DWNGF332QFD6K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distances to Local Group Galaxies

Alistair R. Walker

arxiv:astro-ph/0303011 v1 · 2003-03-01 · astro-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X7AZERSB76P46DWNGF332QFD6K}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:39.266818Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bfc1924641ff9fcf0ecd3177bd40a3f29c701a6fe9d4fa09cf6fe471592dfadc

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0303011 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0303011v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0303011 · pith_short_12: X7AZERSB76P4 · pith_short_16: X7AZERSB76P46DWN · pith_short_8: X7AZERSB

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/X7AZERSB76P46DWNGF332QFD6K \
  | 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: bfc1924641ff9fcf0ecd3177bd40a3f29c701a6fe9d4fa09cf6fe471592dfadc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "311a76f6206233d977ecf104806ce9ffa2736c99a050b2474567b90e713e7717",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-03-01T21:24:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f13eadd9222c6baa5f42f611cbf0f396f47f0124f3052e75ca084e9cc822f637"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0303011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}