Pith Number

pith:6BYYK3WY

pith:2012:6BYYK3WY35MRL5TUCLJIBKP7HM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Interstellar reddening towards six small areas in Puppis-Vela

G. A. P. Franco

arxiv:1205.3901 v1 · 2012-05-17 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6BYYK3WY35MRL5TUCLJIBKP7HM}

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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	2026-05-18T01:57:26.092428Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f071856ed8df5915f67412d280a9ff3b15de9352ad035172e0775c3285870993

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.3901 · arxiv_version: 1205.3901v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.3901 · pith_short_12: 6BYYK3WY35MR · pith_short_16: 6BYYK3WY35MRL5TU · pith_short_8: 6BYYK3WY

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/6BYYK3WY35MRL5TUCLJIBKP7HM \
  | 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: f071856ed8df5915f67412d280a9ff3b15de9352ad035172e0775c3285870993

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a4bf9ff236b1b94d6d6ef12be32c903720550d711bd89ad4bbeb92dcdd654eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-17T10:49:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58ff67f35c4c194e64435915c7d2dc1fb66aab19d0164eab1ced2ed49d30821f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.3901",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}