Pith Number

pith:XK7RM4DS

pith:2012:XK7RM4DSGTHWRTLXWLK5LSYDGC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Resolving Vega and the inclination controversy with CHARA/MIRC

(10) U. of St. Andrews), (2) Penn State, (3) Geneva Observatory, (4) U. Sydney, (5) Embry-Riddle, (6) Lyon, (7) CHARA, (8) Scottish Association for Marine Science, (9) NOAO, C. Georgy (6), E. Pedretti (8), F. Baron (1), H. McAlister (7), J. Aufdenberg (5), J. D. Monnier (1), J. Sturmann (7), L. Sturmann (7), Ming Zhao (2), N. Thureau (10), N. Turner (7), P. G. Tuthill (4) ((1) University of Michigan, S. Ekstrom (3), S. Kraus (1), S. Ridgway (9), T. ten Brummelaar (7), V. Maestro (4), Xiao Che (1)

arxiv:1211.6055 v2 · 2012-11-26 · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{XK7RM4DSGTHWRTLXWLK5LSYDGC}

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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	2026-05-18T01:52:54.872836Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

babf16707234cf68cd77b2d5d5cb0330a5dcd99969b82e1c8439b17c067a0086

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.6055 · arxiv_version: 1211.6055v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.6055 · pith_short_12: XK7RM4DSGTHW · pith_short_16: XK7RM4DSGTHWRTLX · pith_short_8: XK7RM4DS

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/XK7RM4DSGTHWRTLXWLK5LSYDGC \
  | 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: babf16707234cf68cd77b2d5d5cb0330a5dcd99969b82e1c8439b17c067a0086

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6da5386609d985212a2ee60be368f59156636b76e079b2eda648045417ca2298",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-26T18:27:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d5e9044d6372cdc254da383d339b74789214af9bfaf923d930d6aa21b875a5ad"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.6055",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}