Pith Number

pith:4AFA6XSC

pith:2016:4AFA6XSCPGZI3MEMHAYSY2A6XI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Search for Brief Optical Flashes Associated with the SETI Target KIC 8462852

A. Archer, A. Falcone, A. Furniss, A. McCann, A. N. Otte, A. O'Faolain de Bhroithe, A. Petrashyk, A. Popkow, A. U. Abeysekara, A. Weinstein, B. Zitzer, C. A. Johnson, D. A. Williams, D. Hanna, D. J. Fegan, D. Kieda, D. Nieto, D. Staszak, E. Pueschel, E. Roache, F. Krennrich, G. Gyuk, G. H. Gillanders, G. H. Sembroski, G. Maier, G. Ratliff, G. T. Richards, H. Fleischhack, H. J. Dickinson, I. Telezhinsky, J. D. Eisch, J. Grube, J. H. Buckley, J. Holder, J. L. Christiansen, J. P. Finley, J. Quinn, J. S. Perkins, J. Tyler, J. V Cardenzana, J. V. Tucci, K. Byrum, K. Meagher, K. Ragan, K. Shahinyan, L. Ciupik, L. Fortson, M. Buchovecky, M. Cerruti, M. Errando, M. Huetten, M. J. Lang, M. Kertzman, M. Krause, M. Pohl, M. Santander, N. Hakansson, N. Kelley-Hoskins, N. Park, O. M. Weiner, P. Fortin, P. Kaaret, P. Kar, P. Moriarty, P. T. Reynolds, Q. Feng, R. A. Ong, R. Bird, R. Mukherjee, S. Archambault, S. Griffin, S. Kumar, S. McArthur, S. O'Brien, S. P. Wakely, S. Vincent, T. B. Humensky, T. T.Y. Lin, W. Benbow, W. Cui, X. Chen

arxiv:1602.00987 v2 · 2016-02-02 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{4AFA6XSCPGZI3MEMHAYSY2A6XI}

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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	2026-05-18T01:19:24.524283Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e00a0f5e4279b28db08c38312c681eba29702aa9bea981733a0dcb9b7ee89b52

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.00987 · arxiv_version: 1602.00987v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.00987 · pith_short_12: 4AFA6XSCPGZI · pith_short_16: 4AFA6XSCPGZI3MEM · pith_short_8: 4AFA6XSC

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4AFA6XSCPGZI3MEMHAYSY2A6XI \
  | 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: e00a0f5e4279b28db08c38312c681eba29702aa9bea981733a0dcb9b7ee89b52

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6818224a06708c2891040de8b31b5dc5569fd6a5d437de9d433a8611d751770d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-02T15:58:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c7d8669e05c89bde95286dbf36b66aef720cfdaeb8824881188f41017464d5b7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.00987",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}