Pith Number

pith:3742GV74

pith:2005:3742GV742SAV7N2RYXKJHPIQC6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the distance, reddening and progenitor of V838 Mon

A.Henden, A.Siviero, A.Vallenari, E.Giro, H.E.Bond, L.Crause, P.M.Marrese, R.L.M.Corradi, R.M.Wagner, R.Sordo, S.Desidera, S.Ragaini, S.Starrfield, S.Villanova, T.Tomov, T.Zwitter, U.Munari

arxiv:astro-ph/0501604 v1 · 2005-01-27 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{3742GV742SAV7N2RYXKJHPIQC6}

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Red novae, their progenitors, and remnants

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:50:42.874223Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dff9a357fcd4815fb751c5d493bd1017b002de9c587787ac34e5ab4a0f661896

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0501604 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0501604v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0501604 · pith_short_12: 3742GV742SAV · pith_short_16: 3742GV742SAV7N2R · pith_short_8: 3742GV74

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3742GV742SAV7N2RYXKJHPIQC6 \
  | 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: dff9a357fcd4815fb751c5d493bd1017b002de9c587787ac34e5ab4a0f661896

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d5ea05cc7c5f4d34e56f0e589572c1bc0aa5de80f9132be17822d9b2c16e83df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-01-27T14:20:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d123f8e6a730dabb330be761da0f06dffc18040344e651ee79aaa32e98108e4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0501604",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}