Pith Number

pith:BBOUL4HC

pith:1996:BBOUL4HCRUB2SA5673IV7QLGZC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei and the Radial Transport of Vertical Magnetic Flux

Ethan T. Vishniac, Seok Jae Park

arxiv:astro-ph/9602133 v2 · 1996-02-26 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BBOUL4HCRUB2SA5673IV7QLGZC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T15:59:35.729621Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

085d45f0e28d03a903befed15fc166c8800a99719f191aacd3d337fe05c52de0

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9602133 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9602133v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9602133 · pith_short_12: BBOUL4HCRUB2 · pith_short_16: BBOUL4HCRUB2SA56 · pith_short_8: BBOUL4HC

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/BBOUL4HCRUB2SA5673IV7QLGZC \
  | 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: 085d45f0e28d03a903befed15fc166c8800a99719f191aacd3d337fe05c52de0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f08ffab18fc0cf8b414455fff65b134a4c8b1589ef52516507d383a858b7b85c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-02-26T14:36:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73e0366b764103fb8ec1f1e42a23c1e21b72fd1ceb8571bdeb9ae96ccb277b98"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9602133",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}