Pith Number

pith:BE4BVMDC

pith:2016:BE4BVMDC4IGGJFRALPBXVTT6Y6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gamma-ray Novae: Rare or Nearby?

Anthony M. Brown, Garret Cotter, Paula M. Chadwick, Paul J. Morris

arxiv:1610.09941 v1 · 2016-10-31 · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BE4BVMDC4IGGJFRALPBXVTT6Y6}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:33.491062Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

09381ab062e20c6496205bc37ace7ec79aa10424c5d57edbc4a0ce64d8d92597

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.09941 · arxiv_version: 1610.09941v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.09941 · pith_short_12: BE4BVMDC4IGG · pith_short_16: BE4BVMDC4IGGJFRA · pith_short_8: BE4BVMDC

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/BE4BVMDC4IGGJFRALPBXVTT6Y6 \
  | 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: 09381ab062e20c6496205bc37ace7ec79aa10424c5d57edbc4a0ce64d8d92597

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2da1a85470e6e76a82cf2de1924b219d4092ed939f2dfea39a2734596bfe5e18",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-31T14:37:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39beb7142bb7025b668584557f69e356d6730d827a053cb9edb72e50fbc4048e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.09941",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}