Pith Number

pith:XQ6TVMFH

pith:2022:XQ6TVMFHS43SQC5YHC5VH3ULSR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Astrophysical Distance Scale: V. A 2% Distance to the Local Group Spiral M33 via the JAGB Method, Tip of the Red Giant Branch, and Leavitt Law

Abigail J. Lee, Atefeh Javadi, Barry F. Madore, In Sung Jang, Kayla A. Owens, Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Taylor J. Hoyt, Wendy L. Freedman

arxiv:2205.11323 v2 · 2022-05-23 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XQ6TVMFHS43SQC5YHC5VH3ULSR}

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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	2026-07-05T04:41:41.731146Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc3d3ab0a79737280bb838bb53ee8b945d813ff9ae336b5642f579e274e362df

Aliases

arxiv: 2205.11323 · arxiv_version: 2205.11323v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2205.11323 · pith_short_12: XQ6TVMFHS43S · pith_short_16: XQ6TVMFHS43SQC5Y · pith_short_8: XQ6TVMFH

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/XQ6TVMFHS43SQC5YHC5VH3ULSR \
  | 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: bc3d3ab0a79737280bb838bb53ee8b945d813ff9ae336b5642f579e274e362df

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6633db658c86de566539593508ca2038ffb442b87ffc48efb1cb53a70db8efb2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2022-05-23T14:10:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "44c41c46e5154abb604e0389ce709110acf087115b0eec5e01f02cd7a137a15c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2205.11323",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}