Pith Number

pith:K6TUTI7Q

pith:2001:K6TUTI7QUJWAXF3MMIW6OWRVJI

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The Shapes of Galaxies and Their Halos as Traced by Stars: The Milky Way Dark Halo and The LMC Disk

Baltimore), Roeland P. van der Marel (STScI

arxiv:astro-ph/0107248 v1 · 2001-07-13 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{K6TUTI7QUJWAXF3MMIW6OWRVJI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:37:17.826840Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

57a749a3f0a26c0b976c622de75a354a12bf53c5550df2333c1779b87a6911a9

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0107248 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0107248v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0107248 · pith_short_12: K6TUTI7QUJWA · pith_short_16: K6TUTI7QUJWAXF3M · pith_short_8: K6TUTI7Q

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/K6TUTI7QUJWAXF3MMIW6OWRVJI \
  | 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: 57a749a3f0a26c0b976c622de75a354a12bf53c5550df2333c1779b87a6911a9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aa9381f57ab92b13c5076e9f2d864e9334c91f263a731e8a4b6c64b70baa3d51",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-07-13T18:30:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75333296e37d5b5bdcb57636e53a27ee6a80608a0b7a6180a12b6eb302b73a06"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0107248",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}