Pith Number

pith:3YI2NY3R

pith:1996:3YI2NY3R4C232YGOHRTOSBBXHO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery of a Boxy Peanut Shaped Bulge in the Near Infrared

A. C. Quillen, & D. L. DePoy, J. A. Frogel, L. E. Kuchinski

arxiv:astro-ph/9609042 v2 · 1996-09-05 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3YI2NY3R4C232YGOHRTOSBBXHO}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T16:00:14.454075Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

de11a6e371e0b5bd60ce3c66e904373b84150e6dc368850cbbecb10454d7855d

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9609042 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9609042v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9609042 · pith_short_12: 3YI2NY3R4C23 · pith_short_16: 3YI2NY3R4C232YGO · pith_short_8: 3YI2NY3R

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/3YI2NY3R4C232YGOHRTOSBBXHO \
  | 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: de11a6e371e0b5bd60ce3c66e904373b84150e6dc368850cbbecb10454d7855d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "24be9d007b9a974f745a1d41cc6621caa8e1ed8abb62c42c11a1132d93752374",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-05T19:43:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "79e85db0e6b8a90ea32b85b2923ddad34fc677c143fdfafa2f263c00aae31925"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9609042",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}