Pith Number

pith:6EM3ZK4L

pith:2012:6EM3ZK4LPK6HMOKIKOUPHVBGY4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Subarcsecond location of IGR J17480-2446 with Rossi XTE

A. D'A\`i, A. Papitto, A. Riggio, E. Egron, L. Burderi, M. Floris, M. T. Menna, N. R. Robba, R. Iaria, S. Motta, T. Belloni, T. Di Salvo, V. Testa

arxiv:1206.4878 v1 · 2012-06-21 · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6EM3ZK4LPK6HMOKIKOUPHVBGY4}

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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	2026-05-18T01:56:49.630073Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f119bcab8b7abc76394853a8f3d426c7124b1a32ad622949ff643ca6afe050fb

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.4878 · arxiv_version: 1206.4878v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.4878 · pith_short_12: 6EM3ZK4LPK6H · pith_short_16: 6EM3ZK4LPK6HMOKI · pith_short_8: 6EM3ZK4L

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/6EM3ZK4LPK6HMOKIKOUPHVBGY4 \
  | 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: f119bcab8b7abc76394853a8f3d426c7124b1a32ad622949ff643ca6afe050fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d1e4b0d47b37e54bbd33af08c9ab021005e463f13e565ab9f2af01b4aa20176a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-21T13:45:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8828aa442a20bdfc63cca783980e070c2f9ecc5dc4ce87d4d63fea38a2980cd6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.4878",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}