Pith Number

pith:7XM5Q5BB

pith:2010:7XM5Q5BB6KFJTFICD35QH7CK2B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optical discovery of probable stellar tidal disruption flares

Andrew J. Drake, Dennis Zaritsky, Glennys R. Farrar, Joseph Gelfand, Linda Ostman, Mathew Smith, Nidia Morrell, Sjoert van Velzen, Suvi Gezari

arxiv:1009.1627 v2 · 2010-09-08 · astro-ph.CO

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\pithnumber{7XM5Q5BB6KFJTFICD35QH7CK2B}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:50:35.745492Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fdd9d87421f28a9995021efb03fc4ad044aef96faa2b479c23b0523a12633c86

Aliases

arxiv: 1009.1627 · arxiv_version: 1009.1627v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1009.1627 · pith_short_12: 7XM5Q5BB6KFJ · pith_short_16: 7XM5Q5BB6KFJTFIC · pith_short_8: 7XM5Q5BB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7XM5Q5BB6KFJTFICD35QH7CK2B \
  | 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: fdd9d87421f28a9995021efb03fc4ad044aef96faa2b479c23b0523a12633c86

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "495c9994dc544f0a5a5282fe9093931a12f9f61b89c68f502205dd2e1485035c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2010-09-08T20:00:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5cb9811549a69067efc2414dcc81473803304725eb0986e444764b7a3ac8be97"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1009.1627",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}