Pith Number

pith:5RRYM6XX

pith:2018:5RRYM6XXWS5SGXORBKP7M6UH4E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gazing at the ultra-slow magnetar in RCW 103 with NuSTAR and Swift

A. Borghese, A. De Luca, F. Coti Zelati, G.L. Israel, J. A. Pons, M. Bachetti, N. Rea, P. Esposito, R. Perna

arxiv:1805.00496 v1 · 2018-05-01 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5RRYM6XXWS5SGXORBKP7M6UH4E}

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:54.307940Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec63867af7b4bb235dd10a9ff67a87e1325fed6c8448ac3f0cc24e9cab1cc61c

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.00496 · arxiv_version: 1805.00496v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.00496 · pith_short_12: 5RRYM6XXWS5S · pith_short_16: 5RRYM6XXWS5SGXOR · pith_short_8: 5RRYM6XX

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/5RRYM6XXWS5SGXORBKP7M6UH4E \
  | 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: ec63867af7b4bb235dd10a9ff67a87e1325fed6c8448ac3f0cc24e9cab1cc61c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3ae9dfe69453446f8b2d7e01600245650d99a1f51dcaa6f49da05663aaad373",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-01T18:01:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68fb1ed4f98a5440e7c0037763baa54c993bd5755acb7d4ba1ac6c5d2d47cc76"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.00496",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}