Pith Number

pith:X27CAWMQ

pith:2016:X27CAWMQC4HEW26NIFNKB3HSR2

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Tracing the first stars and galaxies of the Milky Way

Alexander P. Ji, Anna Frebel, Brendan F. Griffen, Brian W. O'Shea, Facundo A. G\'omez, Gregory A. Dooley

arxiv:1611.00759 v4 · 2016-11-02 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X27CAWMQC4HEW26NIFNKB3HSR2}

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:01.714556Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bebe205990170e4b6bcd415aa0ecf28e93598e0a9eded872058a78ae73770389

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.00759 · arxiv_version: 1611.00759v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.00759 · pith_short_12: X27CAWMQC4HE · pith_short_16: X27CAWMQC4HEW26N · pith_short_8: X27CAWMQ

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/X27CAWMQC4HEW26NIFNKB3HSR2 \
  | 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: bebe205990170e4b6bcd415aa0ecf28e93598e0a9eded872058a78ae73770389

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3e2217df312db7ac40358d1bfe649e12c2f4c363964c4ccdce1b60e69f1b2468",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-02T19:59:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db483c24da03abcd0ffdf2dc2b1a340d257463b092133990b14f033727f8f254"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.00759",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}