Pith Number

pith:XZIBTHJD

pith:2009:XZIBTHJDDEZL2XDQN5ROOMQX2W

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Magellanic Stream to Halo Interface: Processes that shape our nearest gaseous Halo Stream

David L. Nidever, Felix J. Lockman, J. S. Gallagher III, Lou Nigra, Snezana Stanimirovic, Steven R. Majewski

arxiv:0908.4218 v1 · 2009-08-28 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XZIBTHJDDEZL2XDQN5ROOMQX2W}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-04T15:48:35.828766Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be50199d231932bd5c706f62e73217d5a14439dd724438b52c558e3ff16477d3

Aliases

arxiv: 0908.4218 · arxiv_version: 0908.4218v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0908.4218 · pith_short_12: XZIBTHJDDEZL · pith_short_16: XZIBTHJDDEZL2XDQ · pith_short_8: XZIBTHJD

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/XZIBTHJDDEZL2XDQN5ROOMQX2W \
  | 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: be50199d231932bd5c706f62e73217d5a14439dd724438b52c558e3ff16477d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7b498d13e709464d78b77e9400fd6a652ba9b69da488f0114e0da2746aa9b20c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2009-08-28T14:37:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85d7222aa9f8b30a80d5fc1f71e8f3f38e436bbdacea0b27d41fce4f3cc6ba39"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0908.4218",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}