Pith Number

pith:74VBCTV6

pith:2017:74VBCTV6MM5GTSEKK6OI4WGAHW

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Non-axisymmetric aberration patterns from wide-field telescopes using spin-weighted Zernike Polynomials

Stephen M. Kent

arxiv:1711.03916 v2 · 2017-11-10 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{74VBCTV6MM5GTSEKK6OI4WGAHW}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:23:13.729668Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ff2a114ebe633a69c88a579c8e58c03dab6a7602f8ccc3744d10aa073f723b63

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.03916 · arxiv_version: 1711.03916v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.03916 · pith_short_12: 74VBCTV6MM5G · pith_short_16: 74VBCTV6MM5GTSEK · pith_short_8: 74VBCTV6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/74VBCTV6MM5GTSEKK6OI4WGAHW \
  | 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: ff2a114ebe633a69c88a579c8e58c03dab6a7602f8ccc3744d10aa073f723b63

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8149bddc0f184ba69a3a7ce1f56f098d85e549167be465df6e09fc94f2a8849",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-10T16:45:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "628aa6116481e51ea90aa015c5cc7b930161c47595da12e5593f2d7ef2d3581f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.03916",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}