Pith Number

pith:XZHEGZ7Q

pith:2017:XZHEGZ7QUOMGOQRJ6Z5PKSPO2G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is there a disk of satellites around the Milky Way?

Federico Marinacci, Moupiya Maji, Qirong Zhu, Yuexing Li

arxiv:1702.00485 v2 · 2017-02-01 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XZHEGZ7QUOMGOQRJ6Z5PKSPO2G}

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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	2026-05-18T00:40:51.253169Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be4e4367f0a398674229f67af549eed185e5024f4880126bcdaf7f38d39032a3

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.00485 · arxiv_version: 1702.00485v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.00485 · pith_short_12: XZHEGZ7QUOMG · pith_short_16: XZHEGZ7QUOMGOQRJ · pith_short_8: XZHEGZ7Q

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/XZHEGZ7QUOMGOQRJ6Z5PKSPO2G \
  | 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: be4e4367f0a398674229f67af549eed185e5024f4880126bcdaf7f38d39032a3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "67f0fdf1749632561c19b4d35c36d564b4ae75a0a4f885e20e7e4d07c4cde694",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-01T22:44:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a267728c0fbd917d5edf640b0b261b42fe9ef8bead35d8a6d9ad496ac4a7c29"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.00485",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}