Pith Number

pith:ZCTCMMQH

pith:2006:ZCTCMMQHTFGQAGEX7B2WYX456Z

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The distribution of maser stars in the inner Milky Way: the effect of a weak, rotating bar

G. van de Ven, H.J. Habing, K. Kuijken: the ROTBAR consortium, M. Messineo, M.N. Sevenster

arxiv:astro-ph/0608525 v1 · 2006-08-24 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZCTCMMQHTFGQAGEX7B2WYX456Z}

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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	2026-05-18T03:47:43.047591Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c8a6263207994d001897f8756c5f9df64a443b3703bcaf3822f41ebbeaf57748

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0608525 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0608525v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0608525 · pith_short_12: ZCTCMMQHTFGQ · pith_short_16: ZCTCMMQHTFGQAGEX · pith_short_8: ZCTCMMQH

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/ZCTCMMQHTFGQAGEX7B2WYX456Z \
  | 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: c8a6263207994d001897f8756c5f9df64a443b3703bcaf3822f41ebbeaf57748

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f717ef9eb3740f9b0b2c8d6b3582ce3b8b54bc1acd52e746267ebc76cb80c70",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-08-24T15:52:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db92db854a2f444f3e4640f1f1abe2607f301febd1d7444645142192bbae8948"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0608525",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}