Pith Number

pith:LXWPZCKF

pith:2015:LXWPZCKFF4X73FMYSCXCELWQ6J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The VVV Survey reveals classical Cepheids tracing a young and thin stellar disk across the Galaxy's bulge

D. Majaess, D. Minniti, G. Hajdu, I. D\'ek\'any, J. Alonso-Garc\'ia, J. Borissova, M. Catelan, M. Zoccali, W. Gieren

arxiv:1509.08402 v1 · 2015-09-28 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LXWPZCKFF4X73FMYSCXCELWQ6J}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:29:44.412001Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5decfc89452f2ffd959890ae222ed0f269680d768d569e3767bd611605f6d2cf

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.08402 · arxiv_version: 1509.08402v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.08402 · pith_short_12: LXWPZCKFF4X7 · pith_short_16: LXWPZCKFF4X73FMY · pith_short_8: LXWPZCKF

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LXWPZCKFF4X73FMYSCXCELWQ6J \
  | 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: 5decfc89452f2ffd959890ae222ed0f269680d768d569e3767bd611605f6d2cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b32309fc42893a6403dde56b917771f4a68075b9c3ed443dc870cbc794639081",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-28T17:23:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "114875fa8878a616cc325844f13e9c143c102d3cf96e995b6bc592dbd45aba62"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.08402",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}