Pith Number

pith:ZYKQS6TR

pith:2016:ZYKQS6TRWL3XDLLRELTJ53ZWNW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Araucaria Project. On the Tip of the Red Giant Branch distance determination to the Magellanic Clouds

Bartlomiej Zgirski, Bogumil Pilecki, Dariusz Graczyk, Grzegorz Pietrzynski, Ksenia Suchomska, Marcio Catelan, Marek Gorski, Paulina Karczmarek, Piotr Konorski, Piotr Wielgorski, Wolfgang Gieren

arxiv:1605.06210 v1 · 2016-05-20 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZYKQS6TRWL3XDLLRELTJ53ZWNW}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:34.170521Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce15097a71b2f771ad7122e69eef366d8d63202172365d2fbace6a03be0b4683

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.06210 · arxiv_version: 1605.06210v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.06210 · pith_short_12: ZYKQS6TRWL3X · pith_short_16: ZYKQS6TRWL3XDLLR · pith_short_8: ZYKQS6TR

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/ZYKQS6TRWL3XDLLRELTJ53ZWNW \
  | 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: ce15097a71b2f771ad7122e69eef366d8d63202172365d2fbace6a03be0b4683

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88e5aeee1cba2455f56d5da8e36554934c4b6a0706b6e0aa21a51e0b4cc42860",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-20T04:21:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fabb8f4eefdf075c95db590496e90879e9574b2a78617f05cc53b07b29025c7f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.06210",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}