Pith Number

pith:4B4DIBZR

pith:2018:4B4DIBZRZDPHTMLQYPY7FVVTMI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE).I. Introduction to the Survey

A. Boselli, A. Longobardi, A. McConnachie, A. Petric, B. Epinat, B. Koribalski, B. Mahoney, B. Vollmer, C. Robert, D. Burgarella, D. Devost, D. Patton, D. Russeil, E.W. Peng, F. Boulanger, F. Combes, G. Consolandi, G. Gavazzi, G. Hensler, H. Plana, H. Wozniak, J. Braine, J.C. Cuillandre, J. Gomez-Lopez, J. Navarro, J. Roediger, J. Taylor, J. Willis, K. Spekkens, K. Withington, L. Cortese, L. Drissen, L. Ferrarese, M.A. Miville-Deschenes, M. Balogh, M. Boquien, M. Fossati, M. Fumagalli, M. Marcelin, M. Sun, N. Manset, N. Prantzos, P. Amram, P. Barmby, P. Cote, P. Salome, P. Serra, R. Sanchez-Janssen, S. Boissier, S. Cote, S. Gallagher, S. Gwyn, S. Prunet, S. Tonnesen, T. Burdullis, T. Contini, V. Buat, W. Harris, Y. Roehlly

arxiv:1802.02829 v1 · 2018-02-08 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{4B4DIBZRZDPHTMLQYPY7FVVTMI}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:12:53.303678Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e078340731c8de79b170c3f1f2d6b362118a33a44d3c33cb375df118c571ed44

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.02829 · arxiv_version: 1802.02829v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.02829 · pith_short_12: 4B4DIBZRZDPH · pith_short_16: 4B4DIBZRZDPHTMLQ · pith_short_8: 4B4DIBZR

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4B4DIBZRZDPHTMLQYPY7FVVTMI \
  | 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: e078340731c8de79b170c3f1f2d6b362118a33a44d3c33cb375df118c571ed44

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0bb4253fcd3c52c2eacad2b7e0d445b0d8756e6e520f678ff98da0fe4954402e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-08T12:39:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "163ea9b7e9f49d8b47dd2e26e21163c3faddb70f5279248295d610ee9b6da426"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.02829",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}