Pith Number

pith:ILYJSLSZ

pith:2008:ILYJSLSZOTDVCKK2LQCIZDPTVK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

MMT Hypervelocity Star Survey

Margaret J. Geller, Scott J. Kenyon (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory), Warren R. Brown

arxiv:0808.2469 v2 · 2008-08-19 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ILYJSLSZOTDVCKK2LQCIZDPTVK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T04:29:33.054134Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42f0992e5974c751295a5c048c8df3aab48923f5335630c21062d33084012273

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.2469 · arxiv_version: 0808.2469v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.2469 · pith_short_12: ILYJSLSZOTDV · pith_short_16: ILYJSLSZOTDVCKK2 · pith_short_8: ILYJSLSZ

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/ILYJSLSZOTDVCKK2LQCIZDPTVK \
  | 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: 42f0992e5974c751295a5c048c8df3aab48923f5335630c21062d33084012273

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "91cc4cba2e26070b08d1ffacd3accd6da52e5f1bfeded617d592af9148c15617",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-19T13:13:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e3e6818101201b0b18c5593378d2914de3f14ea56d8ce2229fbbc1fe0167c857"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.2469",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}