Pith Number

pith:Z54XV5OL

pith:1997:Z54XV5OLCTVN4TNBKEVVNA6Z6L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Breaking the degeneracy between anisotropy and mass: The dark halo of the E0 galaxy NGC 6703

(2) Landessternwarte Heidelberg, (3) Inst.Astron.Astrophys., CH, D, D), Gunther Jeske(2), Ortwin Gerhard(1), Ralf Bender(3) ((1) Astron.Inst., R.P. Saglia(3), Univ.Basel, Univ.Muenchen

arxiv:astro-ph/9710129 v1 · 1997-10-13 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z54XV5OLCTVN4TNBKEVVNA6Z6L}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:16.632419Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf797af5cb14eade4da1512b5683d9f2d9719aa08cf83ff073c6a47e5afea3dd

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9710129 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9710129v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9710129 · pith_short_12: Z54XV5OLCTVN · pith_short_16: Z54XV5OLCTVN4TNB · pith_short_8: Z54XV5OL

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/Z54XV5OLCTVN4TNBKEVVNA6Z6L \
  | 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: cf797af5cb14eade4da1512b5683d9f2d9719aa08cf83ff073c6a47e5afea3dd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ab8961df190018223cbba91fd9a5a5d06c116a3fd7ef37e32ae4034ae5cfb3a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-10-13T18:01:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c49c4e53889a1dce5c374bb72caa9d8efef50ff77382d71b8596f1750c3e219"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9710129",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}