Pith Number

pith:55VWGRW6

pith:2015:55VWGRW6QSKKB2V5EBYIOHTAQJ

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A radio-polarisation and rotation measure study of the Gum Nebula and its environment

B. M. Gaensler, C. R. Purcell, D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler, E. Carretti, G. Bernardi, L. Staveley-Smith, M. Haverkorn, M. J. Kesteven, S. Poppi, X. H. Sun

arxiv:1502.06296 v1 · 2015-02-23 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{55VWGRW6QSKKB2V5EBYIOHTAQJ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:41:00.453737Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ef6b6346de8494a0eabd2070871e60824fa24d8c29f165212dc111daa00d182d

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.06296 · arxiv_version: 1502.06296v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.06296 · pith_short_12: 55VWGRW6QSKK · pith_short_16: 55VWGRW6QSKKB2V5 · pith_short_8: 55VWGRW6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/55VWGRW6QSKKB2V5EBYIOHTAQJ \
  | 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: ef6b6346de8494a0eabd2070871e60824fa24d8c29f165212dc111daa00d182d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2584e60c38141a6076890b47dad593acb48e2b3ebccb974eb8b938d063cf7fc7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-23T00:56:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9637f61a25679b3066d854034d0d6633b0f4772960560437201a3fbe56d6ef9f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.06296",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}