Pith Number

pith:XASMLUZX

pith:1997:XASMLUZX2XPQWPI3X7YWX2M22B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

HST Observations of the Field Star Population in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Basilio X. Santiago (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, England), Gerard F. Gilmore, Rebecca A. W. Elson

arxiv:astro-ph/9705149 v1 · 1997-05-20 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XASMLUZX2XPQWPI3X7YWX2M22B}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:40:17.432657Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b824c5d337d5df0b3d1bbff16be99ad049f4ad0c8efaf202e49a0530dbcc6334

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9705149 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9705149v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9705149 · pith_short_12: XASMLUZX2XPQ · pith_short_16: XASMLUZX2XPQWPI3 · pith_short_8: XASMLUZX

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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/XASMLUZX2XPQWPI3X7YWX2M22B \
  | 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: b824c5d337d5df0b3d1bbff16be99ad049f4ad0c8efaf202e49a0530dbcc6334

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cc3868a71686c4e1c77a624603aa012694d939e0be2cf0d4610d2237caec810d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-05-20T09:04:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "23731c5cfe06ab548b8189e4bf8155bb9846f646f4bf27a431eff11875006c79"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9705149",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}