Pith Number

pith:XYWDHYGQ

pith:1993:XYWDHYGQUYPQT2HAYCV5QYTXWC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Can EROS/MACHO be detecting the galactic spheroid instead of the galactic halo?

E. Roulet, G.F. Giudice, S. Mollerach

arxiv:astro-ph/9312047 v2 · 1993-12-19 · astro-ph · hep-ph

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\pithnumber{XYWDHYGQUYPQT2HAYCV5QYTXWC}

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4 Citations open

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:34:35.870436Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be2c33e0d0a61f09e8e0c0abd86277b0bad93cc579f929011554ff5f9d0ccafb

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9312047 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9312047v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9312047 · pith_short_12: XYWDHYGQUYPQ · pith_short_16: XYWDHYGQUYPQT2HA · pith_short_8: XYWDHYGQ

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/XYWDHYGQUYPQT2HAYCV5QYTXWC \
  | 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: be2c33e0d0a61f09e8e0c0abd86277b0bad93cc579f929011554ff5f9d0ccafb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52f5994a3e5ad47a36973695452e12bd52379b63be5319c7c9e88c94c510023b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1993-12-19T17:51:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ccce4d8f91096cc4ce17e6028eb0aba70f3a28cb00fe884a70ac0f21abec30de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9312047",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}