Pith Number

pith:5Q4PQGQK

pith:2002:5Q4PQGQKW3SWURL7LU2265F2L5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Searching for Stars in Compact High-Velocity Clouds. I First Results from VLT and 2MASS

J. Kerp, R.E. Schulte-Ladbeck, U. Hopp

arxiv:astro-ph/0210287 v1 · 2002-10-14 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5Q4PQGQKW3SWURL7LU2265F2L5}

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T04:14:55.494230Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec38f81a0ab6e56a457f5d35af74ba5f5babc26b7ca114078a45a480a2ec98d7

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0210287 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0210287v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0210287 · pith_short_12: 5Q4PQGQKW3SW · pith_short_16: 5Q4PQGQKW3SWURL7 · pith_short_8: 5Q4PQGQK

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/5Q4PQGQKW3SWURL7LU2265F2L5 \
  | 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: ec38f81a0ab6e56a457f5d35af74ba5f5babc26b7ca114078a45a480a2ec98d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9bd524f00fc0129ced87887f0bba783db854f4dc22f942fcaf895258125a3099",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-10-14T17:31:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "44d4448be32c946b22586def11688a072850673cda971f3b9b30b83f041b31bb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0210287",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}