Pith Number

pith:55IKD3QM

pith:2017:55IKD3QMCLDYHSL5H52MUMAJBZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Behind the dust curtain: the spectacular case of GRB 160623A

A. Giuliani, A. Tiengo, E. Costantini, F. Pintore, G. Vianello, P. Esposito, R. Salvaterra, S. Mereghetti, Z. Bosnjak

arxiv:1708.08835 v1 · 2017-08-29 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{55IKD3QMCLDYHSL5H52MUMAJBZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:46.238055Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef50a1ee0c12c783c97d3f74ca30090e7101cbfec22b64840ce38a0215020d76

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.08835 · arxiv_version: 1708.08835v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.08835 · pith_short_12: 55IKD3QMCLDY · pith_short_16: 55IKD3QMCLDYHSL5 · pith_short_8: 55IKD3QM

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/55IKD3QMCLDYHSL5H52MUMAJBZ \
  | 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: ef50a1ee0c12c783c97d3f74ca30090e7101cbfec22b64840ce38a0215020d76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc3eda6b0a53920173faf755b376258aacf0b9ac35042ddf8f7e5f84450134aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-29T15:50:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "20cf01f985803cd616f4290d1639e60d07b0c73d755ad9cdd104eec6ce3e6ee1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.08835",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}