Pith Number

pith:2G6PB33Z

pith:2018:2G6PB33ZHWI2WVMSFZSYU5U6PH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Science with an ngVLA: Tidal disruption events

Brian D. Metzger, Geoffrey C. Bower, Sjoert van Velzen

arxiv:1810.06677 v1 · 2018-10-15 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2G6PB33ZHWI2WVMSFZSYU5U6PH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:11.970367Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d1bcf0ef793d91ab55922e658a769e79e81c3b5ea67c31bedcc3effa393e463d

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.06677 · arxiv_version: 1810.06677v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.06677 · pith_short_12: 2G6PB33ZHWI2 · pith_short_16: 2G6PB33ZHWI2WVMS · pith_short_8: 2G6PB33Z

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/2G6PB33ZHWI2WVMSFZSYU5U6PH \
  | 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: d1bcf0ef793d91ab55922e658a769e79e81c3b5ea67c31bedcc3effa393e463d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d1ae04991b6932791719e629c7865d46256c5159e4c109b8504e9a4c3614c12",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-15T20:43:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7431392a1cb9ade62a195d29fd8a2d657620225ee78752667f71f33a2ead2a5d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.06677",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}