Pith Number

pith:4HVRPTJI

pith:2017:4HVRPTJI6KNSQIXFNFZCTFRUOR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Interferometric confirmation of "water fountain" candidates

Andrew Walsh, Jose F. Gomez, J. Ricardo Rizzo, Lucero Uscanga, Luis F. Miranda, Olga Suarez, Philippe Bendjoya

arxiv:1703.05037 v2 · 2017-03-15 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4HVRPTJI6KNSQIXFNFZCTFRUOR}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:46:12.279079Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e1eb17cd28f29b2822e569722996347452c5f77695b21fad0899352f3df9007d

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.05037 · arxiv_version: 1703.05037v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.05037 · pith_short_12: 4HVRPTJI6KNS · pith_short_16: 4HVRPTJI6KNSQIXF · pith_short_8: 4HVRPTJI

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/4HVRPTJI6KNSQIXFNFZCTFRUOR \
  | 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: e1eb17cd28f29b2822e569722996347452c5f77695b21fad0899352f3df9007d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5aa1b27c22029e80e83d17dd98e9e30f365f8c0fbd04c02bd7c4719c6d7f16c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-15T09:26:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c94a9c05b211c4141067cac4e262aaa78b59e23d7f4bcd5797144336bd7f5fc5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.05037",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}