Pith Number

pith:2BI3UFCV

pith:2005:2BI3UFCVHATOSN5ESOQCR6HQVO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

SN 1998A: Explosion of a Blue Supergiant

A. Pastorello, A. Piemonte, B. Leibundgut, D. Branch, E. Baron, E. Cappellaro, F. Patat, G. Altavilla, J. Sollerman, L. Zampieri, M. Ramina, M. Salvo, M. Turatto, S. Benetti

arxiv:astro-ph/0504114 v1 · 2005-04-05 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2BI3UFCVHATOSN5ESOQCR6HQVO}

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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	2026-07-04T16:51:52.319258Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d051ba14553826e937a493a028f8f0abaecaa2dc8137ae5bc76011cf7320db47

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0504114 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0504114v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0504114 · pith_short_12: 2BI3UFCVHATO · pith_short_16: 2BI3UFCVHATOSN5E · pith_short_8: 2BI3UFCV

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/2BI3UFCVHATOSN5ESOQCR6HQVO \
  | 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: d051ba14553826e937a493a028f8f0abaecaa2dc8137ae5bc76011cf7320db47

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6607c6b39211fe5ddc9151d2ad4daa94e63af05a99feb62d4f070bc30a33f877",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-04-05T16:21:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8945453055e2479f29934281399936049cbb75305c47b6c0916c56ce3acea139"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0504114",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}