Pith Number

pith:2T62X6FI

pith:2018:2T62X6FINCH5KSS3LKZFZOONRI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Mini-Tracker concepts for the SALT transient follow-up program

John A. Booth, Lisa A. Crause, Michael Shara, Steven M. Crawford

arxiv:1808.00138 v1 · 2018-08-01 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2T62X6FINCH5KSS3LKZFZOONRI}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:09:08.671682Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d4fdabf8a8688fd54a5b5ab25cb9cd8a1821f217d11c5c6a0c38823e2559cd8e

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.00138 · arxiv_version: 1808.00138v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.00138 · pith_short_12: 2T62X6FINCH5 · pith_short_16: 2T62X6FINCH5KSS3 · pith_short_8: 2T62X6FI

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/2T62X6FINCH5KSS3LKZFZOONRI \
  | 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: d4fdabf8a8688fd54a5b5ab25cb9cd8a1821f217d11c5c6a0c38823e2559cd8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "55978265cdeb88990e66acb6b83fe67e7e38ee95e3f8ca2aeb2de098f76890d7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-01T01:59:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7de29e4a3e916fa840f8442d87ea098feaeb806d23e364e02e5226d6e30584c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.00138",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}