Pith Number

pith:6QUCKB6M

pith:2004:6QUCKB6MWP5NHP6FBEJYOIRLZ5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Interferometric Observation of the Highly Polarized SiO Maser Emission from the $v=1, J=5-4$ Transition Associated with VY Canis Majoris

Hiroko Shinnaga, James M. Moran, Ken H. Young, Paul T.P. Ho

arxiv:astro-ph/0408298 v2 · 2004-08-17 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{6QUCKB6MWP5NHP6FBEJYOIRLZ5}

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:44:30.037042Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4282507ccb3fad3bfc5091387222bcf50f1e21222284352baab787f8f790cf0

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0408298 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0408298v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0408298 · pith_short_12: 6QUCKB6MWP5N · pith_short_16: 6QUCKB6MWP5NHP6F · pith_short_8: 6QUCKB6M

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6QUCKB6MWP5NHP6FBEJYOIRLZ5 \
  | 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: f4282507ccb3fad3bfc5091387222bcf50f1e21222284352baab787f8f790cf0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6ff834a5615655346a98a34e6b76ce829574ddf7d30889490e2336ffe1c2dc15",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-08-17T04:29:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b76a8e58e13a6529759ca1e0dae02618eaf53c6dc6c47496279eacf0f5fc5f1d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0408298",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}