Pith Number

pith:4V5VJFLW

pith:2010:4V5VJFLW6QVCTOLETQ56U2JMA5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When A Standard Candle Flickers

Andreas von Kienlin, Ascension Camero-Arranz (NSSTC), Charles A. Meegan (USRA), Chryssa Kouveliotou (NASA/MSFC), Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge (NASA/MSFC), Doug Swartz (USRA), Erik Kuulkers (ESA/ESAC), Gary L. Case (LSU), Gerald K. Skinner (UMD/CRESST/NASA/GSFC), Hans A. Krimm (CRESST/NASA/GSFC/USRA), James C. Rodi (LSU), Jochen Greiner (MPE), Keith Jahoda (NASA/GSFC), Lorenzo Natalucci (INAF-IASF), Mark H. Finger (USRA), Michael L. Cherry (LSU), Michael S. Briggs (UAH), Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC), Nikolai Shaposhnikov, Peter Jenke (NPP/NASA/MSFC), P. Narayana Bhat, R. Marc Kippen (LANL), Robert Preece (UAH), Roland Diehl, Valerie Connaughton (UAH), Vandiver Chaplin, Wayne H. Baumgartner (NASA/CRESST) Elif Beklen (METU/SDU), William S. Paciesas, Xiao-Ling Zhang (MPE)

arxiv:1010.2679 v2 · 2010-10-13 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4V5VJFLW6QVCTOLETQ56U2JMA5}

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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	2026-05-18T04:30:04.519862Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e57b549576f42a29b9649c3bea692c074e3de7c9f5c6792333be1acaeb432e06

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.2679 · arxiv_version: 1010.2679v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.2679 · pith_short_12: 4V5VJFLW6QVC · pith_short_16: 4V5VJFLW6QVCTOLE · pith_short_8: 4V5VJFLW

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/4V5VJFLW6QVCTOLETQ56U2JMA5 \
  | 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: e57b549576f42a29b9649c3bea692c074e3de7c9f5c6792333be1acaeb432e06

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "87015b9c955ff0fbe887af398cf786841fa192890e1ccbccc21b907fd3b38869",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-13T15:04:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9d19b3c75c7d8f985f661a1375c6bf2990bbddf6af0f252ede8af72cc7e2e355"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.2679",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}