Pith Number

pith:6QTWYGH4

pith:2015:6QTWYGH4HTHVG5IFSBM4TGM6XW

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A high-sensitivity polarimeter using a ferro-electric liquid crystal modulator

Daniel V. Cotton, Jeremy Bailey, J.H. Hough, Kimberly Bott, Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer, P.W. Lucas

arxiv:1503.02236 v1 · 2015-03-08 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6QTWYGH4HTHVG5IFSBM4TGM6XW}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:40:52.966755Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4276c18fc3ccf5375059059c9999ebda5f574a5635d4eee7e241dbc66bf341d

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.02236 · arxiv_version: 1503.02236v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.02236 · pith_short_12: 6QTWYGH4HTHV · pith_short_16: 6QTWYGH4HTHVG5IF · pith_short_8: 6QTWYGH4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6QTWYGH4HTHVG5IFSBM4TGM6XW \
  | 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: f4276c18fc3ccf5375059059c9999ebda5f574a5635d4eee7e241dbc66bf341d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4b5601fa631f4ec719f1a247fae88a323eb94a4628e87193207e25f8fc3a0374",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-08T01:45:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "14fb75f442d10ded93b7c844cac68a36ba7c54df9b93fd09b97d16b34f0f8ef7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.02236",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}