Pith Number

pith:3LJGXUN4

pith:1996:3LJGXUN4QAGHYCVOWLRCIWOGLD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Clustering of DIRBE Light and IR Background

A. Kashlinsky, J.C. Mather, M.G. Hauser, S. Odenwald

arxiv:astro-ph/9604180 v1 · 1996-04-30 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3LJGXUN4QAGHYCVOWLRCIWOGLD}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:40:21.377252Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dad26bd1bc800c7c0aaeb2e22459c658cb865c3d395e605bc659e578f7f3d7bc

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9604180 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9604180v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9604180 · pith_short_12: 3LJGXUN4QAGH · pith_short_16: 3LJGXUN4QAGHYCVO · pith_short_8: 3LJGXUN4

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/3LJGXUN4QAGHYCVOWLRCIWOGLD \
  | 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: dad26bd1bc800c7c0aaeb2e22459c658cb865c3d395e605bc659e578f7f3d7bc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dfcacd0e1279edcd8a66ee901d7069589ea39142a60cd66eae698997f116f24f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-04-30T18:34:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2eedd7901780a286f9807d0eea8e189ad2c74beb8389dbc025b112e398848b8d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9604180",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}