Pith Number

pith:RCNRBMNI

pith:2018:RCNRBMNI44FGDOUH7YDQUXE6FK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Planetary Nebulae distances in GAIA DR2

Daniela Barr\'ia, Stefan Kimeswenger

arxiv:1807.06368 v1 · 2018-07-17 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RCNRBMNI44FGDOUH7YDQUXE6FK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:05.919587Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

889b10b1a8e70a61ba87fe070a5c9e2a98273b80e359c9db1c37c904118d6456

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.06368 · arxiv_version: 1807.06368v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.06368 · pith_short_12: RCNRBMNI44FG · pith_short_16: RCNRBMNI44FGDOUH · pith_short_8: RCNRBMNI

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/RCNRBMNI44FGDOUH7YDQUXE6FK \
  | 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: 889b10b1a8e70a61ba87fe070a5c9e2a98273b80e359c9db1c37c904118d6456

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed15dea77e6543581f940c7f57a96d3fa3421aa8cae5b3826d9fdbc9d0cd2baf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-17T11:59:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a07539360de1cf8c450e53905ca7a9a4d876759ce1a230d4804bf8b725d15e01"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.06368",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}