Pith Number

pith:45QLHIAE

pith:2010:45QLHIAEBFBU2VBLUM624ZRYPE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards a Resource-Centric Data Network for Astronomy

Alberto Accomazzi, Michael J. Kurtz, Stephen S. Murray

arxiv:1005.1886 v1 · 2010-05-11 · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{45QLHIAEBFBU2VBLUM624ZRYPE}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T02:24:08.331934Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e760b3a00409434d542ba33dae6638793a1704c0a66f8e29d90c0f26d0b497e4

Aliases

arxiv: 1005.1886 · arxiv_version: 1005.1886v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.1886 · pith_short_12: 45QLHIAEBFBU · pith_short_16: 45QLHIAEBFBU2VBL · pith_short_8: 45QLHIAE

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/45QLHIAEBFBU2VBLUM624ZRYPE \
  | 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: e760b3a00409434d542ba33dae6638793a1704c0a66f8e29d90c0f26d0b497e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9b9b5b6a70be92d97a24b2d26bf875494bd94f96e87f42b4fb6eca538962e1e0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2010-05-11T16:55:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9b06887ac4d7c6ba9d5c08f69579bcd9760e7d8dee5c47b8ede6ade55c0d92c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1005.1886",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}