Pith Number

pith:2W5THB6M

pith:2003:2W5THB6MNOTZKNG62ZY447UISP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Unidentified Infrared Bands in the Interstellar Medium across the Galaxy

C. Leinert, D. Lemke, J. Kahanpaa, K. Lehtinen, K. Mattila

arxiv:astro-ph/0305171 v1 · 2003-05-10 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2W5THB6MNOTZKNG62ZY447UISP}

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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	2026-07-04T16:37:00.649188Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5bb3387cc6ba79534ded671ce7e8893c155af46167b1f4d000fa2c796db8d8e

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0305171 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0305171v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0305171 · pith_short_12: 2W5THB6MNOTZ · pith_short_16: 2W5THB6MNOTZKNG6 · pith_short_8: 2W5THB6M

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/2W5THB6MNOTZKNG62ZY447UISP \
  | 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: d5bb3387cc6ba79534ded671ce7e8893c155af46167b1f4d000fa2c796db8d8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9fd72d0c2994402fa4aadda5edf5f4e3acf9f4a8edd8ac9a8b5993faac1d3591",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-05-10T16:10:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f63be4834b7f59855ec0a7b44fe0ef800c2931af8aa34744dc51f473bb4ca117"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0305171",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}