Pith Number

pith:6BEXSTEP

pith:2018:6BEXSTEPSBUQDEHIMTVUZVRQ3L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Serendipitous Discovery of a 14-year-old Supernova at 16 Mpc

Aaron J. Barth, Daniel J. Patnaude, James Guillochon, Jorge Stockler de Moraes, Katie Auchettl, Luis C. Ho, Matt Nicholl, Zhao-Yu Li

arxiv:1809.00163 v1 · 2018-09-01 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6BEXSTEPSBUQDEHIMTVUZVRQ3L}

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:35.892017Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f049794c8f90690190e864eb4cd630dafed4668db3dd37619cb4e2c27a517295

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.00163 · arxiv_version: 1809.00163v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.00163 · pith_short_12: 6BEXSTEPSBUQ · pith_short_16: 6BEXSTEPSBUQDEHI · pith_short_8: 6BEXSTEP

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/6BEXSTEPSBUQDEHIMTVUZVRQ3L \
  | 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: f049794c8f90690190e864eb4cd630dafed4668db3dd37619cb4e2c27a517295

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7876b41c03616094b93da514e85a525d5deb17f024c989e0ea93b2e83eec8f77",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-01T12:39:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9d05882d7295e256ee26b6e5929768686bf45c9be577ecc39a64a2253ad0f25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.00163",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}