Pith Number

pith:6VGCRVKT

pith:2016:6VGCRVKT6PU3CERO3L25SEYKCS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The cataclysmic variable AE Aquarii: B-V colour of the flares

G. B. Nikolov, G. Y. Latev, K. A. Stoyanov, R. K. Zamanov, S. Boeva, S. Ibryamov

arxiv:1612.06157 v1 · 2016-12-19 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.HE

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\pithnumber{6VGCRVKT6PU3CERO3L25SEYKCS}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:39:39.364151Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f54c28d553f3e9b1122edaf5d9130a14967a7e9dd8b4339dac73f9f5c90326ce

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.06157 · arxiv_version: 1612.06157v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.06157 · pith_short_12: 6VGCRVKT6PU3 · pith_short_16: 6VGCRVKT6PU3CERO · pith_short_8: 6VGCRVKT

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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/6VGCRVKT6PU3CERO3L25SEYKCS \
  | 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: f54c28d553f3e9b1122edaf5d9130a14967a7e9dd8b4339dac73f9f5c90326ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e890f23a5364afef64a1edb0d9b2d274d26ffe87fd175512b5d81f89e2a1c85e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-19T12:55:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b6eb1019b478ab948e97f3a8e9d4b80dfc7b8e3da3beb53b8a27654172ab616c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.06157",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}