Pith Number

pith:4I2MP2QQ

pith:1998:4I2MP2QQPZ2HQZCDMAQ4MSOS6X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Multi-Wavelength Afterglows in Gamma-Ray Bursts: Refreshed Shock and Jet Effects

A. Panaitescu, P. Meszaros (Penn State University) & M.J. Rees (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

arxiv:astro-ph/9801258 v3 · 1998-01-27 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4I2MP2QQPZ2HQZCDMAQ4MSOS6X}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:06:06.769907Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e234c7ea107e747864436021c649d2f5df548ecab8ef71c1412a622b11669859

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9801258 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9801258v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9801258 · pith_short_12: 4I2MP2QQPZ2H · pith_short_16: 4I2MP2QQPZ2HQZCD · pith_short_8: 4I2MP2QQ

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/4I2MP2QQPZ2HQZCDMAQ4MSOS6X \
  | 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: e234c7ea107e747864436021c649d2f5df548ecab8ef71c1412a622b11669859

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bf3b7904af0f560028b11a1a8a13df77fcd7ab69ed4750e5f64fb899f487476d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-01-27T01:53:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "069426a9bf31d4729bbff1e54de893483d36740e42ec24a4698d3f0030c2cbaf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9801258",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}