Pith Number

pith:6YBYXKM3

pith:2017:6YBYXKM37MJIBLV6VBSOWBOPEM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Electromagnetic Evidence that SSS17a is the Result of a Binary Neutron Star Merger

Anthony L. Piro, Ariadna Murguia-Berthier, Armin Rest, Barry F. Madore, Benjamin J. Shappee, Carlos Contreras, C\'esar Rojas-Bravo, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Daniel Kasen, David A. Coulter, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Francesco di Mille, Joshua D. Simon, J. Xavier Prochaska, Konstantina Boutsia, Maria R. Drout, Matthew R. Siebert, Natalie Ulloa, Nidia Morrell, Ryan J. Foley, Yen-Chen Pan

arxiv:1710.05434 v1 · 2017-10-16 · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6YBYXKM37MJIBLV6VBSOWBOPEM}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:32:49.530166Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f6038ba99bfb1280aebea864eb05cf23224882d0687f7a28175a423198d6a84c

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.05434 · arxiv_version: 1710.05434v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.05434 · pith_short_12: 6YBYXKM37MJI · pith_short_16: 6YBYXKM37MJIBLV6 · pith_short_8: 6YBYXKM3

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/6YBYXKM37MJIBLV6VBSOWBOPEM \
  | 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: f6038ba99bfb1280aebea864eb05cf23224882d0687f7a28175a423198d6a84c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ad0a1dfeabbf073994a40110fabe1d2efb18605e1961664fcb5006fc8d519f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-16T16:57:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "245cd021fe4bd88f951e761d86ac03fdc801779d8eb69425a001a0294f9c243b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.05434",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}