Pith Number

pith:A4JSLZ4S

pith:1998:A4JSLZ4SCWWBHTDU3HICSLOHRZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The 1.4 GHz light curve of GRB 970508

4), 5), 7), 8) ((1) Amsterdam NL (2) IoA, A.G. de Bruyn (4, AL, Cambridge, C. Kouveliotou (6, C.R. Robinson (6, France (4) NFRA, Huntsville, J. van Paradijs (1, M. Bremer (3), NL (5) Groningen, NL (6) USRA (7) NASA/MSFC, P.J. Groot (1), R.A.M.J. Wijers (2), R.G. Strom (1, T.J. Galama (1), UK (3) IRAM, USA), USA (8) UAH

arxiv:astro-ph/9804190 v1 · 1998-04-20 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A4JSLZ4SCWWBHTDU3HICSLOHRZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:37.576106Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

071325e79215ac13cc74d9d0292dc78e6ea359566ed0169cef3fe666121847fb

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9804190 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9804190v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9804190 · pith_short_12: A4JSLZ4SCWWB · pith_short_16: A4JSLZ4SCWWBHTDU · pith_short_8: A4JSLZ4S

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/A4JSLZ4SCWWBHTDU3HICSLOHRZ \
  | 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: 071325e79215ac13cc74d9d0292dc78e6ea359566ed0169cef3fe666121847fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b60a1459afec499b80fa6cae6c8c699ed2e840e7687d80a43c49b27afe77a871",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-04-20T11:13:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ee45e99248bf44a6e8c58cb4aad994da70cd3c58fe4c0ebf50a7ea99808b0df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9804190",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}