Pith Number

pith:5B4TAFXF

pith:2019:5B4TAFXFB4KRTTGYZUWLFMGWJE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Properties of the Interstellar Medium along Sight Lines to Nearby Planet Hosting Stars

Brian E. Wood, Eric Edelman, Hans M\"uller, Jeffrey L. Linsky, Seth Redfield

arxiv:1908.05375 v1 · 2019-08-15 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5B4TAFXFB4KRTTGYZUWLFMGWJE}

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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	2026-07-04T23:58:29.132981Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8793016e50f1519ccd8cd2cb2b0d64916621247bdd12f7c7f14a982a1ace0e4

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.05375 · arxiv_version: 1908.05375v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.05375 · pith_short_12: 5B4TAFXFB4KR · pith_short_16: 5B4TAFXFB4KRTTGY · pith_short_8: 5B4TAFXF

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/5B4TAFXFB4KRTTGYZUWLFMGWJE \
  | 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: e8793016e50f1519ccd8cd2cb2b0d64916621247bdd12f7c7f14a982a1ace0e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f8bb9388749429c678520fea4d3da112fa1b69dbda776e8d6b5a86184810a4d4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP",
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-15T00:06:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1a4a4ae2c70d6face185eb9bf9b4a6820c747a5a9186ef4e59b0ef1799b3d75d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.05375",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}