Pith Number

pith:ZMU6BTNZ

pith:2018:ZMU6BTNZVAGFCF7DEK2JQD2ELH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stars behind bars II: A cosmological formation scenario for the Milky Way's central stellar structure

1), (2) Columbia University New York, 3), (3) CCA New York, (4) LMU, (5) NYUAD), Aaron A. Dutton (5) ((1) MPIA, Andrea V. Macci\`o (5, Aura Obreja (4), Melissa Ness (2, Tobias Buck (1)

arxiv:1807.00829 v3 · 2018-07-02 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZMU6BTNZVAGFCF7DEK2JQD2ELH}

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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	2026-05-17T23:49:43.496621Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb29e0cdb9a80c5117e322b4980f4459d7b41113c4fb35259f9ddc6e0420b473

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.00829 · arxiv_version: 1807.00829v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.00829 · pith_short_12: ZMU6BTNZVAGF · pith_short_16: ZMU6BTNZVAGFCF7D · pith_short_8: ZMU6BTNZ

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/ZMU6BTNZVAGFCF7DEK2JQD2ELH \
  | 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: cb29e0cdb9a80c5117e322b4980f4459d7b41113c4fb35259f9ddc6e0420b473

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8aef047489ffe6797ad9fea636e1b823ee535216069ec49169ab8e6f7c9706b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-02T18:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ac0bdb983fd9170e342c643058878cea432b99e289a8b19c238def370a9f44a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.00829",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}