Pith Number

pith:5IBVGAD3

pith:2016:5IBVGAD3R26PEQF6E2U5PUK4LX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Earliest Datable Records of Aurora-like Phenomena in the Astronomical Diaries from Babylonia

Akito Davis Kawamura, Harufumi Tamazawa, Hiroaki Isobe, Hiroko Miyahara, Hisashi Hayakawa, Yasuyuki Mitsuma, Yusuke Ebihara

arxiv:1611.05197 v1 · 2016-11-16 · astro-ph.SR · physics.hist-ph · physics.space-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5IBVGAD3R26PEQF6E2U5PUK4LX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:54.268312Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea0353007b8ebcf240be26a9d7d15c5de54ca605b91d44a8451e28a59dab798e

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.05197 · arxiv_version: 1611.05197v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.05197 · pith_short_12: 5IBVGAD3R26P · pith_short_16: 5IBVGAD3R26PEQF6 · pith_short_8: 5IBVGAD3

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/5IBVGAD3R26PEQF6E2U5PUK4LX \
  | 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: ea0353007b8ebcf240be26a9d7d15c5de54ca605b91d44a8451e28a59dab798e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "586af25411f7dbee4a802ec854c3eca247ec51f8882dcb6fbff1f9cefc754b28",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.hist-ph",
      "physics.space-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-16T09:46:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d8c31607ac3cac781479dcebc4ffdf891a7417513d909aafab864c937d72bb6b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.05197",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}