Pith Number

pith:HCKDW3IF

pith:2015:HCKDW3IF5PESRFPTZSJWWH6ZKC

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Down-the-barrel and transverse observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud: evidence for a symmetrical galactic wind on the near and far sides of the galaxy

J. Chris Howk, Kat Barger, Nicolas Lehner

arxiv:1512.00461 v1 · 2015-12-01 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{HCKDW3IF5PESRFPTZSJWWH6ZKC}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:21:51.352295Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

38943b6d05ebc92895f3cc936b1fd950ba6a5f74da92a94bd75f04a26e2d70c4

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.00461 · arxiv_version: 1512.00461v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.00461 · pith_short_12: HCKDW3IF5PES · pith_short_16: HCKDW3IF5PESRFPT · pith_short_8: HCKDW3IF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HCKDW3IF5PESRFPTZSJWWH6ZKC \
  | 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: 38943b6d05ebc92895f3cc936b1fd950ba6a5f74da92a94bd75f04a26e2d70c4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e84741788649c3de359a1e45bf6349640f70b971f6ad777b79b5bb569436980a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-01T21:00:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "adefe6260d3b51086bce5f3f1d205ef387eb2bd75cc53d495cb97b508ec64462"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.00461",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}