Pith Number

pith:4ICEVRBG

pith:1993:4ICEVRBGXDF65DRU4BDMNOEG44

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reionization and cosmic microwave background distortions: a complete treatment of second order Compton scattering

Douglas Scott & Joseph Silk, Wayne Hu

arxiv:astro-ph/9305038 v1 · 1993-05-29 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4ICEVRBGXDF65DRU4BDMNOEG44}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T15:55:06.602216Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e2044ac426b8cbee8e34e046c6b886e70b11f72745964a8f754d3ae8f0c56f74

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9305038 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9305038v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9305038 · pith_short_12: 4ICEVRBGXDF6 · pith_short_16: 4ICEVRBGXDF65DRU · pith_short_8: 4ICEVRBG

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/4ICEVRBGXDF65DRU4BDMNOEG44 \
  | 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: e2044ac426b8cbee8e34e046c6b886e70b11f72745964a8f754d3ae8f0c56f74

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dca20de807639a1ad5037cd24047eb9b301af84730ca2488a8a41ff966ca3731",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1993-05-29T02:40:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5f4e3e4ca2112b688194cc5baa742401bd2150322f21ad54e6dd66837364ac39"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9305038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}