Pith Number

pith:AMMVWMSL

pith:2014:AMMVWMSLCWOC6KDHWTYJBLBLSA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Connection between optical and gamma-ray variability in blazars

A. C. S. Readhead, A. Drake, A. Mahabal, B. Sesar, D. Levitan, E. O. Ofek, J. L. Richards, J. Surace, O. G. King, R. Dancikova, R. Laher, S. G. Djorgovski, T. A. Prince, T. Hovatta, T. J. Pearson, V. Pavlidou, W. Max-Moerbeck

arxiv:1401.0538 v1 · 2014-01-02 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AMMVWMSLCWOC6KDHWTYJBLBLSA}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:57:07.785856Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

03195b324b159c2f2867b4f090ac2b9010886c033c6e422f85bd1a5bb2875009

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.0538 · arxiv_version: 1401.0538v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.0538 · pith_short_12: AMMVWMSLCWOC · pith_short_16: AMMVWMSLCWOC6KDH · pith_short_8: AMMVWMSL

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/AMMVWMSLCWOC6KDHWTYJBLBLSA \
  | 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: 03195b324b159c2f2867b4f090ac2b9010886c033c6e422f85bd1a5bb2875009

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "185be48a462a855b3d0a5e4fb44cf3987376eceaac2e2dd981ebe6847721120e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-02T21:00:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eac296956b85d03e4702c2f7759c7b3c2a21054789ca856ec1d118b46df13b2c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.0538",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}