Pith Number

pith:444HKGRJ

pith:2017:444HKGRJEKNZR2KPYG7LQQIPLA

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On the timing between terrestrial gamma ray flashes, radio atmospherics, and optical lightning emission

Hugh J. Christian, Nikolai {\O}stgaard, Phillip Bitzer, Thomas Gjesteland

arxiv:1708.07322 v1 · 2017-08-24 · physics.space-ph · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{444HKGRJEKNZR2KPYG7LQQIPLA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:46.582091Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e738751a29229b98e94fc1beb8410f583b6a232574f32366170ac1506e20af59

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.07322 · arxiv_version: 1708.07322v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.07322 · pith_short_12: 444HKGRJEKNZ · pith_short_16: 444HKGRJEKNZR2KP · pith_short_8: 444HKGRJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/444HKGRJEKNZR2KPYG7LQQIPLA \
  | 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: e738751a29229b98e94fc1beb8410f583b6a232574f32366170ac1506e20af59

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40a760bda71f302c4f32e06c7bc1b9c1bd1750db58b531745332fd4a8c32eefc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.space-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-24T09:04:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a85ffc8a6d17661549ffe20d6149a37325efccf241a2a3f456eb353e78c113de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.07322",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}