Pith Number

pith:4KWBEZQJ

pith:1998:4KWBEZQJUIVE23QJK6E35VLVHM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Accretion Stream Mapping

(2) Potsdam, Axel D. Schwope (2) ((1) Cape Town, Germany), Sonja Vrielmann (1), South Africa

arxiv:astro-ph/9810062 v1 · 1998-10-05 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4KWBEZQJUIVE23QJK6E35VLVHM}

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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	2026-07-04T14:16:04.949783Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e2ac126609a22a4d6e095789bed5753b22f2d1583de5af9781084486ccc4e712

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9810062 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9810062v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9810062 · pith_short_12: 4KWBEZQJUIVE · pith_short_16: 4KWBEZQJUIVE23QJ · pith_short_8: 4KWBEZQJ

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/4KWBEZQJUIVE23QJK6E35VLVHM \
  | 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: e2ac126609a22a4d6e095789bed5753b22f2d1583de5af9781084486ccc4e712

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "57be4c3a6840057b3b01a849882fc8451896fb0872ed7e63dcffd1ab341d8a35",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-10-05T12:24:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad5ac586ceb5ba05cb9726aec28aed64d75a7f867b3cb41057fb7ed8ee1820d7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9810062",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}