Pith Number

pith:3FQBTY7W

pith:2012:3FQBTY7W4EUYXNYHYURQELHYXM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Managing Distributed Software Development in the Virtual Astronomical Observatory

Brian Refsdal, Brian Thomas, Ivo Busko, Janet D. Evans, Mark Cresitello-Dittmar, Nina Bonaventura, Olga Pevunova, Omar Laurino, Raffaele D'Abrusco, Raymond L. Plante, Rick Ebert, Stephen Doe

arxiv:1206.6161 v1 · 2012-06-27 · astro-ph.IM · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3FQBTY7W4EUYXNYHYURQELHYXM}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:56:41.410688Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d96019e3f6e1298bb707c523022cf8bb3bc567c90b592156db0beb87f9df2d77

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.6161 · arxiv_version: 1206.6161v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.6161 · pith_short_12: 3FQBTY7W4EUY · pith_short_16: 3FQBTY7W4EUYXNYH · pith_short_8: 3FQBTY7W

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/3FQBTY7W4EUYXNYHYURQELHYXM \
  | 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: d96019e3f6e1298bb707c523022cf8bb3bc567c90b592156db0beb87f9df2d77

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e4405e24c6b72ff2da7fd0b3d5e7eabfe6a509a84c8b923c337b022daf1c4214",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-27T03:06:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "732d791c0e678c255ade818e659c31ce1a01c88ba4d098f28635c7f0c93bce7f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.6161",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}