Pith Number

pith:XIQWNFQV

pith:2012:XIQWNFQVWFB6BYMS2XYGWE3XDE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Pal 5 Star Stream Gaps

C. J. Grillmair, Nathan Hetherington, R. G. Carlberg

arxiv:1209.1741 v1 · 2012-09-08 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XIQWNFQVWFB6BYMS2XYGWE3XDE}

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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	2026-05-18T01:54:38.208951Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba21669615b143e0e192d5f06b1377193994f699fb4e44c224538484d1e98e5c

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.1741 · arxiv_version: 1209.1741v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.1741 · pith_short_12: XIQWNFQVWFB6 · pith_short_16: XIQWNFQVWFB6BYMS · pith_short_8: XIQWNFQV

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/XIQWNFQVWFB6BYMS2XYGWE3XDE \
  | 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: ba21669615b143e0e192d5f06b1377193994f699fb4e44c224538484d1e98e5c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c17d74a67152b3954a9934b4098f526eaa2667f17c6e92dfd187eb5c4133fedc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-08T18:55:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26e759aefd60429f1c18993f134659fe6bf0c309e4e7d9733a1c88c8905ed25d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.1741",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}