Pith Number

pith:7GZRICRM

pith:2019:7GZRICRMKH6JJYPQ7HWSWLWUFE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Resolving the distance controversy for Sharpless 269: A possible kink in the outer arm

H. J. van Langevelde, K. Immer, L. H. Quiroga-Nu\~nez, M. J. Reid, R. A. Burns

arxiv:1903.11036 v1 · 2019-03-26 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{7GZRICRMKH6JJYPQ7HWSWLWUFE}

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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	2026-05-17T23:46:11.950251Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f9b3140a2c51fc94e1f0f9ed2b2ed4290710f531f432829502fd0a57d7a5d5f5

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.11036 · arxiv_version: 1903.11036v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.11036 · pith_short_12: 7GZRICRMKH6J · pith_short_16: 7GZRICRMKH6JJYPQ · pith_short_8: 7GZRICRM

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/7GZRICRMKH6JJYPQ7HWSWLWUFE \
  | 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: f9b3140a2c51fc94e1f0f9ed2b2ed4290710f531f432829502fd0a57d7a5d5f5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "790ddda9ab8363c00634fe9f862d3bb8f1d23e924ed8825a1a022e5abb9669af",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-26T17:33:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f4f3652981befdcc920bfd1c60af75dc4dbd94b73ce76dc41732894858040f06"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.11036",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}