Pith Number

pith:5R3XM5ST

pith:2012:5R3XM5STZ4BBSSN453Z3FAN3SX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why Do Compact Active Galactic Nuclei at High Redshift Scintillate Less?

B. J. Rickett, C. Reynolds, D. L. Jauncey, H. E. Bignall, J. E. J. Lovell, J.-P. Macquart, J. Y. Koay, L. Kedziora-Chudczer, R. Ojha, T. Pursimo

arxiv:1206.5053 v1 · 2012-06-22 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5R3XM5STZ4BBSSN453Z3FAN3SX}

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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	2026-05-18T03:48:58.607045Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec77767653cf021949bceef3b281bb95dc50f21d83d26f432bfc34016f2f8116

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.5053 · arxiv_version: 1206.5053v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.5053 · pith_short_12: 5R3XM5STZ4BB · pith_short_16: 5R3XM5STZ4BBSSN4 · pith_short_8: 5R3XM5ST

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/5R3XM5STZ4BBSSN453Z3FAN3SX \
  | 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: ec77767653cf021949bceef3b281bb95dc50f21d83d26f432bfc34016f2f8116

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "24c135b30513f28eed63ce7178acd748cc6a04c73a08cf86043b0f04b01f64d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-22T04:31:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "832cfa119c252081048bb7798a4eda9d5b2cbc4a919b189345fef3d247eccf0f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.5053",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}