Pith Number

pith:Y354ZAKZ

pith:2012:Y354ZAKZDUE7Y7A4QOC7VIXDAL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Probing the Outer Galactic halo with RR Lyrae from the Catalina Surveys

A.J. Drake, A. Mahabal, C. Donalek, E. Beshore, G. Torrealba, J.L. Prieto, M. Catelan, M.J. Graham, R. Williams, S. E. Koposov, S.G. Djorgovski, S. Larson E. Christensen, V. Belokurov

arxiv:1211.2866 v1 · 2012-11-13 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y354ZAKZDUE7Y7A4QOC7VIXDAL}

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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	2026-05-18T01:53:16.395444Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6fbcc81591d09fc7c1c8385faa2e302c7f4611ea8f1aa496833060fd9ee584c

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.2866 · arxiv_version: 1211.2866v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.2866 · pith_short_12: Y354ZAKZDUE7 · pith_short_16: Y354ZAKZDUE7Y7A4 · pith_short_8: Y354ZAKZ

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/Y354ZAKZDUE7Y7A4QOC7VIXDAL \
  | 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: c6fbcc81591d09fc7c1c8385faa2e302c7f4611ea8f1aa496833060fd9ee584c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "255b65cddb5c3f3c4bc2228d98e86d2a6e42022b923b2237bc0be891e33de520",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-13T01:27:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "672902d9e4d6a60779a6fc57b585a6212129d5036ed58841f7cb693cfa1aba4d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.2866",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}