Pith Number

pith:3GINEGCQ

pith:2000:3GINEGCQ3FVAFFXWS3PRIH5OXC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

GRB990510: on the possibility of a beamed X-ray afterglow

E. Costa, E. Kuulkers, E. Pian, F. Frontera, J. Heise, J.J.M. in 't Zand, J.S. Kaastra, L.A. Antonelli, L. Amati, L. Kuiper, L. Nicastro, L. Piro, N. Masetti, P. Soffita

arxiv:astro-ph/0003258 v1 · 2000-03-17 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3GINEGCQ3FVAFFXWS3PRIH5OXC}

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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	2026-07-04T16:16:11.803396Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d990d21850d96a0296f696df141faeb89951ed400fd424437bc76e91e6d69d52

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0003258 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0003258v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0003258 · pith_short_12: 3GINEGCQ3FVA · pith_short_16: 3GINEGCQ3FVAFFXW · pith_short_8: 3GINEGCQ

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/3GINEGCQ3FVAFFXWS3PRIH5OXC \
  | 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: d990d21850d96a0296f696df141faeb89951ed400fd424437bc76e91e6d69d52

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8650cd931dc36bec9c6956dace30d4609c09c92b7a1214a3fb99db695a7aa91f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-03-17T15:17:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "60ed5e8cef7f05b8fad77235a1dc7a00a569610d3d1ac08f76c2133f9a2a30db"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0003258",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}