Pith Number

pith:3S5MEIAU

pith:2002:3S5MEIAUF4HRBRPCP6FKE3H6C3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The VLBA Calibrator Survey - VCS1

A.B. Peck, A.J. Beasley, C. Ma, D. Gordon, D.S. MacMillan, E.B. Fomalont, L. Petrov

arxiv:astro-ph/0201414 v1 · 2002-01-24 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3S5MEIAUF4HRBRPCP6FKE3H6C3}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Direct VLBI evidence for a buried AGN in the triple-merger LIRG UGC 2369S

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T17:25:11.580796Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dcbac220142f0f10c5e27f8aa26cfe16fde296e322e9b6d49d5cb5b4db7b39a1

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0201414 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0201414v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0201414 · pith_short_12: 3S5MEIAUF4HR · pith_short_16: 3S5MEIAUF4HRBRPC · pith_short_8: 3S5MEIAU

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/3S5MEIAUF4HRBRPCP6FKE3H6C3 \
  | 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: dcbac220142f0f10c5e27f8aa26cfe16fde296e322e9b6d49d5cb5b4db7b39a1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9da4f0a726e81c5c5bc28942b05902daf33f25849fb41bff058aa25a408d803c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-01-24T21:09:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fe86eab023f1ff1f26bd475d050e4c24315a3a54a5d79daf8c092df4f553c326"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0201414",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}