Pith Number

pith:2KI5YTNE

pith:1997:2KI5YTNE3MZDBHPCX6KZLC37DC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

CMB Anisotropy Induced by Cosmic Strings on Angular Scales $>~ 15'$

A. Stebbins, B. Allen, E. P. S. Shellard, L. Knox, R. R. Caldwell, S. Dodelson

arxiv:astro-ph/9704160 v1 · 1997-04-16 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2KI5YTNE3MZDBHPCX6KZLC37DC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:38.468783Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d291dc4da4db32309de2bf95958b7f18bdbd9e56bbbd3e474d2fc6ba692e0e59

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9704160 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9704160v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9704160 · pith_short_12: 2KI5YTNE3MZD · pith_short_16: 2KI5YTNE3MZDBHPC · pith_short_8: 2KI5YTNE

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/2KI5YTNE3MZDBHPCX6KZLC37DC \
  | 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: d291dc4da4db32309de2bf95958b7f18bdbd9e56bbbd3e474d2fc6ba692e0e59

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "49fc8d9cb2c3ccb4355545196d36627ebe6296c741fe3e66d656ca112ac4c099",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-04-16T17:28:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b78f55e2f96e6f9c2f421653f9571ab71b13469d37b1372d8113fc6626a3d0f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9704160",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}