Pith Number

pith:6KCQ5N6M

pith:2018:6KCQ5N6MKKZPFK6MVQSYHP2GWR

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SN 2016X: A Type II-P Supernova with A Signature of Shock Breakout from Explosion of A Massive Red Supergiant

C. McCully, D.-A. Howell, D.-F. Xiang, F. Huang, G. Hosseinzadeh, H. Lin, H. Song, I. Arcavi, J.-J. Zhang, J. Mo, K.-C. Zhang, L.-F. Wang, L.-M. Rui, P. J. Brown, S. Valenti, T.-M. Zhang, W.-X. Li, X.-F. Wang

arxiv:1801.03167 v1 · 2018-01-08 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{6KCQ5N6MKKZPFK6MVQSYHP2GWR}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:25:15.253335Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f2850eb7cc52b2f2abccac2583bf46b4531e9b2004517645b8561729259d52fd

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.03167 · arxiv_version: 1801.03167v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.03167 · pith_short_12: 6KCQ5N6MKKZP · pith_short_16: 6KCQ5N6MKKZPFK6M · pith_short_8: 6KCQ5N6M

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6KCQ5N6MKKZPFK6MVQSYHP2GWR \
  | 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: f2850eb7cc52b2f2abccac2583bf46b4531e9b2004517645b8561729259d52fd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "829e6677af8a926579b8bc9875b68b6e78a010bcb39f0973c04c188cfc53a3a1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-08T09:21:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0d86631cd997dcd403f2d4bc9f9536beb17b3bad7c5074c694a366bdd28524fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.03167",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}