Pith Number

pith:BF5LVYKN

pith:2000:BF5LVYKN7LSGWUQFNDZBASACKT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Rapid Synchrotron Flares from BL Lacertae Detected by ASCA and RXTE

C. Tanihata, F. Makino, G. M. Madejski, H. Kubo, J. Kataoka, J. R. Mattox, N. Kawai, S. Inoue, T. Takahashi

arxiv:astro-ph/0006195 v1 · 2000-06-14 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BF5LVYKN7LSGWUQFNDZBASACKT}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-04T16:16:47.940144Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

097abae14dfae46b520568f210480254c89c59ec43eed9f286418d59ab012a68

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0006195 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0006195v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0006195 · pith_short_12: BF5LVYKN7LSG · pith_short_16: BF5LVYKN7LSGWUQF · pith_short_8: BF5LVYKN

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/BF5LVYKN7LSGWUQFNDZBASACKT \
  | 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: 097abae14dfae46b520568f210480254c89c59ec43eed9f286418d59ab012a68

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "61a8eb008f9ed7cb4de74e2f0b6477aa87bc1b0802f958e61cf62640cfcf749e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-06-14T12:07:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "14b4f17f16ea4a06662ca338509f0615f1dc45253c81bdde265c02c9a393aab5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0006195",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}