Pith Number

pith:B2MJV7F3

pith:1996:B2MJV7F3S2YFJX3EPERGJ32CDL

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Comparison of stars and decaying neutrinos as additional sources of Intergalactic UV background

L. Masperi, S. Savaglio

arxiv:astro-ph/9609173 v1 · 1996-09-25 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B2MJV7F3S2YFJX3EPERGJ32CDL}

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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	2026-05-18T04:34:29.178079Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e989afcbb96b054df64792264ef421affcf955450c04467e1965f48df1191cf

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9609173 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9609173v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9609173 · pith_short_12: B2MJV7F3S2YF · pith_short_16: B2MJV7F3S2YFJX3E · pith_short_8: B2MJV7F3

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B2MJV7F3S2YFJX3EPERGJ32CDL \
  | 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: 0e989afcbb96b054df64792264ef421affcf955450c04467e1965f48df1191cf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3885ea9a514e0cba7d70e7757044eaaa07ff7a147f7999b2fa4b8237f9829060",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-25T09:18:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46c2c45c22a6d443e81070658d81c7b914e649a8ec7a8357b7b0e4744f9423f0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9609173",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}