Pith Number

pith:6UKLIHBU

pith:1996:6UKLIHBUHZFRYMSP4XVXJYLYP3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Counter-rotating Bulge in the Sb Galaxy NGC 7331

C.D. McKeith (Belfast), C. Gutierrez (IAC Tenerife), F. Prada, R.F. Peletier (Groningen)

arxiv:astro-ph/9602142 v2 · 1996-02-27 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6UKLIHBUHZFRYMSP4XVXJYLYP3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:53:28.201841Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f514b41c343e4b1c324fe5eb74e1787ef17fb329ed8e6c5faa62786e1d7328a0

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9602142 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9602142v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9602142 · pith_short_12: 6UKLIHBUHZFR · pith_short_16: 6UKLIHBUHZFRYMSP · pith_short_8: 6UKLIHBU

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/6UKLIHBUHZFRYMSP4XVXJYLYP3 \
  | 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: f514b41c343e4b1c324fe5eb74e1787ef17fb329ed8e6c5faa62786e1d7328a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d241bf3789daf3441613ab3a33fabf01640d560fff7c9e81d75b42f488eab0b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-02-27T20:14:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a6a184d82163ebfbe729c949e3fb8e3d977d3c3a9e913c2e0966620211f092a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9602142",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}