Pith Number

pith:YNHVZ53R

pith:1995:YNHVZ53R64FO6RQBW3LSKLVGS7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sagittarius: The Nearest Dwarf Galaxy

CA), Cambridge), GB), G. Gilmore (IoA Cambridge, M.J. Irwin (RGO, Rodrigo Ibata(UBC, Vancouver

arxiv:astro-ph/9506071 v1 · 1995-06-10 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YNHVZ53R64FO6RQBW3LSKLVGS7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:23.246516Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c34f5cf771f70aef4601b6d7252ea697fb7dd8d8d9d8596b051c9507adc96ca6

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9506071 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9506071v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9506071 · pith_short_12: YNHVZ53R64FO · pith_short_16: YNHVZ53R64FO6RQB · pith_short_8: YNHVZ53R

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/YNHVZ53R64FO6RQBW3LSKLVGS7 \
  | 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: c34f5cf771f70aef4601b6d7252ea697fb7dd8d8d9d8596b051c9507adc96ca6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "69542a59d99488cc202e47d0766201a9df412e5c476f8dd08074d3066b9cacdf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1995-06-10T16:07:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "617ef7dcca739c4c98d0a21964398f629736c8097bf431ec41555d08b4b94ff1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9506071",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}