Pith Number

pith:VPK5KNLX

pith:2016:VPK5KNLXW7ARCGDCJNJD27PENC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Blue diffuse dwarf galaxies: a clearer picture

Bethan L. James, Daniel P. Stark, Edward W. Olszewski, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Max Pettini, Sergey E. Koposov, Vasily Belokurov

arxiv:1611.05888 v1 · 2016-11-17 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VPK5KNLXW7ARCGDCJNJD27PENC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:53:06.728495Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abd5d53577b7c11118624b523d7de468808d01bb47525f80c9d7fd0be9069dda

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.05888 · arxiv_version: 1611.05888v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.05888 · pith_short_12: VPK5KNLXW7AR · pith_short_16: VPK5KNLXW7ARCGDC · pith_short_8: VPK5KNLX

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/VPK5KNLXW7ARCGDCJNJD27PENC \
  | 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: abd5d53577b7c11118624b523d7de468808d01bb47525f80c9d7fd0be9069dda

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b06532962c17c7b35a531db2dff38e915550c80e86bd8c5b95cce7d1fb1001f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-17T21:01:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c26ea164eab62374986221980ac3820afaef1b3b11d60339f0487d6d4f9655d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.05888",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}