Pith Number

pith:3LKXGKJN

pith:1996:3LKXGKJNOJY5MI6YFZDYKKMQUH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VLBI Imaging of Water Maser Emission from the Nuclear Torus of NGC 1068

C.R. Gwinn, L.J. Greenhill, R. Antonucci, R. Barvainis

arxiv:astro-ph/9609082 v1 · 1996-09-11 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3LKXGKJNOJY5MI6YFZDYKKMQUH}

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Record completeness

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:00:14.631202Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dad573292d7271d623d82e47852990a1ee86642e27f770b801a8c15e618db518

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9609082 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9609082v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9609082 · pith_short_12: 3LKXGKJNOJY5 · pith_short_16: 3LKXGKJNOJY5MI6Y · pith_short_8: 3LKXGKJN

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/3LKXGKJNOJY5MI6YFZDYKKMQUH \
  | 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: dad573292d7271d623d82e47852990a1ee86642e27f770b801a8c15e618db518

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "827df7a76ce8f02a4b923f24928be0f56ca5557b84e987975a0eb65593ca456b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-11T19:19:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "311244dc50230aed9343008e3655a3acd52ff596d887c2b7d1b82ebbea8adb0e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9609082",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}