Pith Number

pith:4MSQTPZH

pith:2016:4MSQTPZHE6HETHGJCUYKBIXVUT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evidence of magnetic field decay in massive main-sequence stars

A. de Koter, A. Mueller, F. R. N. Schneider, G. A. Wade, H. Sana, L. Fossati, N. Castro, N. Langer, S. Simon-Diaz, T. Morel, V. Petit

arxiv:1606.07599 v1 · 2016-06-24 · astro-ph.SR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4MSQTPZHE6HETHGJCUYKBIXVUT}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T01:10:02.203264Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e32509bf27278e499cc91530a0a2f5a4d85a339d92ed2ad2ab1a9694e3924030

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.07599 · arxiv_version: 1606.07599v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.07599 · pith_short_12: 4MSQTPZHE6HE · pith_short_16: 4MSQTPZHE6HETHGJ · pith_short_8: 4MSQTPZH

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/4MSQTPZHE6HETHGJCUYKBIXVUT \
  | 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: e32509bf27278e499cc91530a0a2f5a4d85a339d92ed2ad2ab1a9694e3924030

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "024968d3d071eac52963753525c4238eb57599bbae3acdfb282dcb96a6e9126e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-24T08:33:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ef549e1b9cfb92dffd329c9ad08fc884ebad67a34ac3a7c1b2a82d15e0a97ed7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.07599",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}