Pith Number

pith:6IZF2FMD

pith:2024:6IZF2FMDC5GIYEZDXP6KQ5BDXQ

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The Discovery of Polarized Water Vapor Megamaser Emission in a Molecular Accretion Disk

Boy Lankhaar, C. M. Violette Impellizzeri, Feng Gao, Jack F. Gallimore, Samaneh Aghelpasand, Virginia Hostetter

arxiv:2410.10569 v2 · 2024-10-14 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6IZF2FMDC5GIYEZDXP6KQ5BDXQ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:21:08.487220Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f2325d1583174c8c1323bbfca87423bc069f2dde77be02300b8cd76ae84d7b49

Aliases

arxiv: 2410.10569 · arxiv_version: 2410.10569v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.10569 · pith_short_12: 6IZF2FMDC5GI · pith_short_16: 6IZF2FMDC5GIYEZD · pith_short_8: 6IZF2FMD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6IZF2FMDC5GIYEZDXP6KQ5BDXQ \
  | 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: f2325d1583174c8c1323bbfca87423bc069f2dde77be02300b8cd76ae84d7b49

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0bd3fbaa257824f4a4b2319e657c49b31eed9e948065357f56d340a4db2c8aac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2024-10-14T14:46:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0df8c3c5ff051cce90efc0f2494cb63e9211ed1b235c3382d6d3f313f9bf6787"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2410.10569",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}