Pith Number

pith:ROT37CN4

pith:2017:ROT37CN4D4CYZ46CO5Z6V24JAZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A parametric description of the 3D structure of the Galactic Bar/Bulge using the VVV survey

Annie C. Robin, Carlos Gonzalez-Fernandez, Iulia T. Simion, Juntai Shen, Mike Irwin, Sergey E. Koposov, Vasily Belokurov, Zhao-Yu Li

arxiv:1707.06660 v1 · 2017-07-20 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ROT37CN4D4CYZ46CO5Z6V24JAZ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:39:52.056813Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8ba7bf89bc1f058cf3c27773eaeb89064f6d60ff02b74ccbf80b9a7a415cf2cd

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.06660 · arxiv_version: 1707.06660v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.06660 · pith_short_12: ROT37CN4D4CY · pith_short_16: ROT37CN4D4CYZ46C · pith_short_8: ROT37CN4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ROT37CN4D4CYZ46CO5Z6V24JAZ \
  | 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: 8ba7bf89bc1f058cf3c27773eaeb89064f6d60ff02b74ccbf80b9a7a415cf2cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc4d971760563c34f8c1a9c53d4d1da4a428b4a338b90a54704dcb28057b358f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-20T18:02:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cdf8d379df219f52bc22844f6c37f6e846586e543ebdf6a2d136d8437d6f4c0d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.06660",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}