Pith Number

pith:6ZPGH5QS

pith:2021:6ZPGH5QSMVFN5RGJTORXM6HGMQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Investigating the Nature of the Luminous Ambiguous Nuclear Transient ASASSN-17jz

Adam J. Burgasser, Alexei V. Filippenko, Benjamin Jeffers, Benjamin J. Shappee, Christopher S. Kochanek, Cristina Romero-Ca\~nizales, Daniel Stern, David Bersier, George Lansbury, Hyunsung D. Jun, Jack M. M. Neustadt, Jason T. Hinkle, Jose L. Prieto, Julia Hestenes, Katie Auchettl, Keto D. Zhang, Kevin Tang, K. Z. Stanek, Michael A. Tucker, Myungshin Im, Patrick J. Vallely, Ping Chen, Richard S. Post, Sameen Yunus, Sanyum Channa, Stefano Valenti, Subhash Bose, Subo Dong, Thomas de Jaeger, Thomas G. Brink, Thomas W.-S. Holoien, Timothy W. Ross, Todd A. Thompson, Weikang Zheng

arxiv:2109.07480 v3 · 2021-09-15 · astro-ph.HE

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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	2026-07-05T04:43:34.498402Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f65e63f612654adec4c99ba37678e66423f532ceeecaebe6f692bda853b3fa60

Aliases

arxiv: 2109.07480 · arxiv_version: 2109.07480v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2109.07480 · pith_short_12: 6ZPGH5QSMVFN · pith_short_16: 6ZPGH5QSMVFN5RGJ · pith_short_8: 6ZPGH5QS

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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/6ZPGH5QSMVFN5RGJTORXM6HGMQ \
  | 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: f65e63f612654adec4c99ba37678e66423f532ceeecaebe6f692bda853b3fa60

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f5ec6ca02eaac672c6ed2b99ee2231f486f18da1817829cc2b4629cd3c2f671",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2021-09-15T18:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aca6895912d3a2020755acbee218309882ad294e0f6dc5650cdcc9f1d752ad9d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2109.07480",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}