Pith Number

pith:5VHZACTA

pith:2011:5VHZACTALG25R32JL25VPDDVSG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Identifying Star Streams in the Milky Way Halo

Charles King III, Margaret J. Geller, Scott J. Kenyon (SAO), Warren R. Brown

arxiv:1112.1919 v1 · 2011-12-08 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VHZACTALG25R32JL25VPDDVSG}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:59:14.888203Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed4f900a6059b5d8ef495ebb578c759187de853d92671d889b1a6578a7245626

Aliases

arxiv: 1112.1919 · arxiv_version: 1112.1919v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1112.1919 · pith_short_12: 5VHZACTALG25 · pith_short_16: 5VHZACTALG25R32J · pith_short_8: 5VHZACTA

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/5VHZACTALG25R32JL25VPDDVSG \
  | 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: ed4f900a6059b5d8ef495ebb578c759187de853d92671d889b1a6578a7245626

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6beb1db9bcabe297de6b9c30da6d68aba9a6fb122c8c2ac3b1708ddfbf799ce7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2011-12-08T19:27:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bd9cfaeac8d3026e91f00177a98c1ac87fdeef4b1f55483457ec6e1d6bcaaf82"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1112.1919",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}