Pith Number

pith:6TRTOFZO

pith:2021:6TRTOFZOP4O23XTA7NFD4V2LAW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Best Practices for Data Publication in the Astronomical Literature

Alan Smale, Alberto Accomazzi, Anais Oberto, Andrew W. Boyle, August Muench, Barry Madore, Ben Chan, Benjamin J. Fulton, Calen B. Henderson, Cecile Loup, Christopher Gelino, Cren Frayer, David Cook, David R. Ciardi, Doug Van Orsow, Emmanuelle Perret, G. Bruce Berriman, George Helou, Giacomo Monari, Gilles Landais, Jessie L. Christiansen, Joseph M. Mazzarella, Joshua E. G. Peek, Joyce Kim, Julian C. van Eyken, Justin Howell, Luisa Rebull, Marianne Brouty, Marion Schmitz, Mark Allen, Ohad Shemmer, Olga Pevunova, Patricia Vannier, Pierre Ocvirk, Rachael Beaton, Rachel L. Akeson, Raffaele D'Abrusco, Raymond Tam, Rick Ebert, Scott Terek, Shin-Ywan Wang, Solange V. Ramirez, Tak Lo, Tracy X. Chen, Xiuqin Wu

arxiv:2106.01477 v2 · 2021-06-02 · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6TRTOFZOP4O23XTA7NFD4V2LAW}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T04:23:35.552376Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4e337172e7f1dadde60fb4a3e574b059493892abac7b324dc2f4407c9a2b505

Aliases

arxiv: 2106.01477 · arxiv_version: 2106.01477v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2106.01477 · pith_short_12: 6TRTOFZOP4O2 · pith_short_16: 6TRTOFZOP4O23XTA · pith_short_8: 6TRTOFZO

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/6TRTOFZOP4O23XTA7NFD4V2LAW \
  | 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: f4e337172e7f1dadde60fb4a3e574b059493892abac7b324dc2f4407c9a2b505

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ad2eca7c2b969cb9d7606edc406913f01eef8835f65318fa9a9974c3f18f5a1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2021-06-02T21:26:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "71eda098402bc0d57ad97485074a5d2202ef582561bec494e2fb52de6ec0b5a6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2106.01477",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}