Pith Number

pith:4W7GVT3X

pith:2018:4W7GVT3XM6ZHLV7NBEBO3KDUNT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Sequoia in the Garden: FSR 1758 - Dwarf Galaxy or Giant Globular Cluster?

A. Monachesi, D. Geisler, D. Minniti, F.A. Gomez, J. Alonso-Garcia, J.I. Arias, M. Hempel, R. H. Barba

arxiv:1812.04999 v1 · 2018-12-12 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4W7GVT3XM6ZHLV7NBEBO3KDUNT}

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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	2026-05-17T23:55:53.487569Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5be6acf7767b275d7ed0902eda8746cfb0f0e9b14b5f85bcba1ca59c0a0bef1

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.04999 · arxiv_version: 1812.04999v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.04999 · pith_short_12: 4W7GVT3XM6ZH · pith_short_16: 4W7GVT3XM6ZHLV7N · pith_short_8: 4W7GVT3X

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/4W7GVT3XM6ZHLV7NBEBO3KDUNT \
  | 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: e5be6acf7767b275d7ed0902eda8746cfb0f0e9b14b5f85bcba1ca59c0a0bef1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "93a60da9495190b5a7d79842ef83c8eb787d6e32aa091f381ebb9c8352dda616",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-12T16:02:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04df1bb6706430a6448108f419db912810c90a5029d1a630c0dfde817527e025"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.04999",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}