Pith Number

pith:6OJGFQAH

pith:2000:6OJGFQAHJMCYZQ7EXMX3PXMGNM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Rapidly Fading Afterglow from the Gamma-Ray Burst of 1999 May 6

B. A. Jacoby, D. A. Frail, G. B. Taylor, J. S. Bloom, S. G. Djorgovski, S. R. Kulkarni

arxiv:astro-ph/0005379 v1 · 2000-05-18 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6OJGFQAHJMCYZQ7EXMX3PXMGNM}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:16:41.012483Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f39262c0074b058cc3e4bb2fb7dd866b310496abf7189945f80469066dee0385

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0005379 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0005379v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0005379 · pith_short_12: 6OJGFQAHJMCY · pith_short_16: 6OJGFQAHJMCYZQ7E · pith_short_8: 6OJGFQAH

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/6OJGFQAHJMCYZQ7EXMX3PXMGNM \
  | 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: f39262c0074b058cc3e4bb2fb7dd866b310496abf7189945f80469066dee0385

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3b7fbe8a38216ddd53b2241c45e7f85e759b41b52f8c17d6f464286f04d9a6a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-05-18T21:12:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a0b9a9da9ea8c5b1a31eb7df351b1acb377be17dbf817d5d38df364d71bdd292"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0005379",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}