Pith Number

pith:65HKQFSX

pith:2005:65HKQFSXU6DPPGAV52G5YSCICE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Cosmic Near Infrared Background: Remnant Light from Early Stars

Eiichiro Komatsu, Elizabeth Fernandez

arxiv:astro-ph/0508174 v3 · 2005-08-08 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{65HKQFSXU6DPPGAV52G5YSCICE}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:36:29.782197Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f74ea81657a786f79815ee8ddc4848111b349747c4b6a91176cd2353cdcbcb6e

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0508174 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0508174v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0508174 · pith_short_12: 65HKQFSXU6DP · pith_short_16: 65HKQFSXU6DPPGAV · pith_short_8: 65HKQFSX

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/65HKQFSXU6DPPGAV52G5YSCICE \
  | 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: f74ea81657a786f79815ee8ddc4848111b349747c4b6a91176cd2353cdcbcb6e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d095835032053660377da397dbae2fd4ff474e1c507b071894c27bc1dccd0df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-08-08T16:42:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "080c4bb4d134d5499dddc511306ae01be2c586639717ac85808c04700c68ae51"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0508174",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}