Pith Number

pith:3RI7GU2G

pith:2017:3RI7GU2GYGJWWAKHGZQFILWAEG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Deposition of steeply infalling debris around white dwarf stars

Boris T. Gaensicke, Dimitri Veras, John C. Brown

arxiv:1702.05109 v1 · 2017-02-16 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3RI7GU2GYGJWWAKHGZQFILWAEG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:12.652277Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc51f35346c1936b01473660542ec021b5158e26cbecd9a5b39becdf4713ac4d

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.05109 · arxiv_version: 1702.05109v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.05109 · pith_short_12: 3RI7GU2GYGJW · pith_short_16: 3RI7GU2GYGJWWAKH · pith_short_8: 3RI7GU2G

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3RI7GU2GYGJWWAKHGZQFILWAEG \
  | 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: dc51f35346c1936b01473660542ec021b5158e26cbecd9a5b39becdf4713ac4d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c61c65be3e3a169b754b89548f2d58b8465a3a6ff1655c6755a02ce34d86aed2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-16T19:03:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8300d7b9fde600df018823c6a156ef09f7b619f8c4ee2da5121cc0a95ccca1ae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.05109",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}