Pith Number

pith:5PRLNUA4

pith:2015:5PRLNUA426V5JX2JPK2WIRQF3M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A search for optical counterparts of the complex Vela X system

C. Venter, O.C. de Jager, R.R. Sefako, T.E. Marubini

arxiv:1501.00278 v1 · 2015-01-01 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5PRLNUA426V5JX2JPK2WIRQF3M}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:30:09.686754Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ebe2b6d01cd7abd4df497ab5644605db25b8cec0f5679badb3e64bc60f0ba2ad

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.00278 · arxiv_version: 1501.00278v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.00278 · pith_short_12: 5PRLNUA426V5 · pith_short_16: 5PRLNUA426V5JX2J · pith_short_8: 5PRLNUA4

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5PRLNUA426V5JX2JPK2WIRQF3M \
  | 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: ebe2b6d01cd7abd4df497ab5644605db25b8cec0f5679badb3e64bc60f0ba2ad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7da87aee1289f640d982fe9bb593ededa841470c5675c4ad5c387298b6e92a11",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-01T13:48:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c2a9f41839df4caa5bd12db2bcd1a2df368c265d14e7320c0d21d3c9d6c08266"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.00278",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}