Pith Number

pith:5XUPTOQF

pith:2010:5XUPTOQFTJRH2AALWTHIT3VLAL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pulsar Discovery by Global Volunteer Computing

A. Brazier, A. G. Lyne B. Machenschalk, A. Venkataraman, B. Allen, B. Knispel, B. W. Stappers, C. Aulbert, C. Messenger, D. Anderson, D. Hammer, D. J. Champion, D. J. Nice, D. R. Lorimer, F. A. Jenet, F. Camilo, F. Crawford, H. Fehrmann, H. J. Pletsch, I. H. Stairs, J. M. Cordes, J. S. Deneva, J. van Leeuwen, J. W. T. Hessels, K. Stovall, L. Kasian, M. A. McLaughlin, M. A. Papa, M. E. Gonzalez, M. Kramer, N. D. R. Bhat, O. Bock, P. B. Demorest, P. C. C. Freire, P. Lazarus, R. Prix, S. Bogdanov, S. Chatterjee, S. M. Ransom, V. M. Kaspi, X. Siemens

arxiv:1008.2172 v1 · 2010-08-12 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5XUPTOQFTJRH2AALWTHIT3VLAL}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T04:24:07.238879Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ede8f9ba059a627d000bb4ce89eeab02fd512d45ae711e212fdceb0836a8f801

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.2172 · arxiv_version: 1008.2172v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.2172 · pith_short_12: 5XUPTOQFTJRH · pith_short_16: 5XUPTOQFTJRH2AAL · pith_short_8: 5XUPTOQF

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/5XUPTOQFTJRH2AALWTHIT3VLAL \
  | 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: ede8f9ba059a627d000bb4ce89eeab02fd512d45ae711e212fdceb0836a8f801

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ef92f53a1d8fd9ec8ea09fc9bdc694b7eca4486dbb5df001d0bacdddce6ed476",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-12T17:39:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "794ae418573c734697d1653a31ec9a0c0a40fce8ffd1c6be0d9fef248bc44cbd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.2172",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}