Pith Number

pith:7EFQIMXJ

pith:1996:7EFQIMXJCBSMVOGUHNJMUVNWPT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Soft X-ray background fluctuations and large-scale structure in the Universe

A.C. Fabian (IoA), F.J. Carrera (IFCA), X. Barcons (IFCA)

arxiv:astro-ph/9610236 v3 · 1996-10-29 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7EFQIMXJCBSMVOGUHNJMUVNWPT}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:19.012180Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f90b0432e91064cab8d43b52ca55b67cc2712869905f0472652a90cdaac34684

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9610236 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9610236v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9610236 · pith_short_12: 7EFQIMXJCBSM · pith_short_16: 7EFQIMXJCBSMVOGU · pith_short_8: 7EFQIMXJ

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/7EFQIMXJCBSMVOGUHNJMUVNWPT \
  | 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: f90b0432e91064cab8d43b52ca55b67cc2712869905f0472652a90cdaac34684

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17a0a138ba5b03a10381f086f66b1242e7766b10847b5819aa8e32887b5e1b1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-10-29T10:14:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4c19ca90d4c461d20578d06042bab4b7e2341edcf8ffe1623b1bae8c9ee4c31"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9610236",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}