Pith Number

pith:2VWPYPNV

pith:1998:2VWPYPNVYJE4ZNALPNRCFSAVYC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Radio-Optical Jet in NGC 3862 from Parsec tu Sub-Kiloparsec Scales

C.P. O'Dea, G. Giovannini, L. Feretti, L. Lara, S. Baum, T. Venturi, W.D. Cotton

arxiv:astro-ph/9810495 v1 · 1998-10-30 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2VWPYPNVYJE4ZNALPNRCFSAVYC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T16:07:09.274809Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d56cfc3db5c249ccb40b7b6222c815c091345df1e09c55022f746132a95cfdd6

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9810495 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9810495v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9810495 · pith_short_12: 2VWPYPNVYJE4 · pith_short_16: 2VWPYPNVYJE4ZNAL · pith_short_8: 2VWPYPNV

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/2VWPYPNVYJE4ZNALPNRCFSAVYC \
  | 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: d56cfc3db5c249ccb40b7b6222c815c091345df1e09c55022f746132a95cfdd6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e3e6cd8fbcfa874a54a45d6072822444f1cb1978f506e8a87612fc276e9e1dd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-10-30T12:29:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b384c3bb5774e2fac0d32e44710af4b74beea8a635b5429b40aa23632e34ac2d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9810495",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}