Pith Number

pith:AF5IHZSJ

pith:2017:AF5IHZSJAURCME4BWD37UZ3FPA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Aesthetics of Astrophysics: How to Make Appealing Color-Composite Images that Convey the Science

Kimberly K. Arcand, Lisa M. Frattare, Megan Watzke, Travis A. Rector, Zoltan G. Levay

arxiv:1703.00490 v1 · 2017-03-01 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AF5IHZSJAURCME4BWD37UZ3FPA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:41.744488Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

017a83e6490522261381b0f7fa67657821b724fbc97a861759d1bde4b7762f91

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.00490 · arxiv_version: 1703.00490v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.00490 · pith_short_12: AF5IHZSJAURC · pith_short_16: AF5IHZSJAURCME4B · pith_short_8: AF5IHZSJ

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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/AF5IHZSJAURCME4BWD37UZ3FPA \
  | 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: 017a83e6490522261381b0f7fa67657821b724fbc97a861759d1bde4b7762f91

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7f0297a9867d78876b407767d10e681462f02256f8f7387f66a2b4fb4505ccbb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-01T20:51:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "52c2ac46e20b9a972b8e1d9e4061382549ec3caa11627049caba742dceecbcfe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.00490",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}