Pith Number

pith:3VPHQ25I

pith:2002:3VPHQ25IRJB7AIYL7WE7QVCB4K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Real-Time Detection of Optical Transients with RAPTOR

Dan Starr, James Wren (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Katherine McGowan, Konstantin Borozdin, Mark Galassi, Przemyslaw Wozniak, Robert White, Steven Brumby, W. Thomas Vestrand

arxiv:astro-ph/0210008 v1 · 2002-09-30 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3VPHQ25IRJB7AIYL7WE7QVCB4K}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:30:52.789386Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd5e786ba88a43f0230bfd89f85441e2a027234d1b54d58ecad77a14a65c64e1

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0210008 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0210008v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0210008 · pith_short_12: 3VPHQ25IRJB7 · pith_short_16: 3VPHQ25IRJB7AIYL · pith_short_8: 3VPHQ25I

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/3VPHQ25IRJB7AIYL7WE7QVCB4K \
  | 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: dd5e786ba88a43f0230bfd89f85441e2a027234d1b54d58ecad77a14a65c64e1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66f2de8f366e94ad392603997769098d7cc36b3e004ab6b4c67209ca26330bb7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-09-30T21:55:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a8e127f2cd4ca96a8dfd9fc8fd1492faf81e7a730ae6d12bfd3c34e07fd45fa8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0210008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}