Pith Number

pith:3B4RP6H5

pith:2009:3B4RP6H5E3LWUGRMDPQSRR7PPW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Polarization of Compton X-rays from Jets in AGN

Aimee McNamara, Kinwah Wu, Zdenka Kuncic

arxiv:0906.2096 v1 · 2009-06-11 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3B4RP6H5E3LWUGRMDPQSRR7PPW}

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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	2026-05-18T01:13:17.149008Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d87917f8fd26d76a1a2c1be128c7ef7db5957757ee5a18a3faaf4c64b4a6c361

Aliases

arxiv: 0906.2096 · arxiv_version: 0906.2096v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0906.2096 · pith_short_12: 3B4RP6H5E3LW · pith_short_16: 3B4RP6H5E3LWUGRM · pith_short_8: 3B4RP6H5

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/3B4RP6H5E3LWUGRMDPQSRR7PPW \
  | 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: d87917f8fd26d76a1a2c1be128c7ef7db5957757ee5a18a3faaf4c64b4a6c361

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e01cfe516b9cc799f2df789ec722291a14631e5d43c22e55d27c66c204f58587",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2009-06-11T13:04:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ddb918822510e68324bcd27ed901957d119f229e22baebd192112b31e6182b32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0906.2096",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}