Pith Number

pith:BKBDLFWH

pith:1998:BKBDLFWHNSNGZJO6O3WUUKZVCU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spectroscopy of the Host Galaxy of the Gamma--Ray Burst 980703

(2) W. M. Keck Observatory, (3) Nrao, (4) IAS/CNR Frascati, (5) ITeSRE/CNR, Bologna), Caltech, D. A. Frail (3), E. Palazzi (5) ((1) Palomar Observatory, J. S. Bloom (1), L. Piro (4), R. Goodrich (2), S. G. Djorgovski (1), S. R. Kulkarni (1)

arxiv:astro-ph/9808188 v1 · 1998-08-19 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{BKBDLFWHNSNGZJO6O3WUUKZVCU}

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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	2026-05-18T04:26:44.355470Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a823596c76c9a6ca5de76ed4a2b351504d8dc93babf51169cb1572a79a2e0e8

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9808188 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9808188v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9808188 · pith_short_12: BKBDLFWHNSNG · pith_short_16: BKBDLFWHNSNGZJO6 · pith_short_8: BKBDLFWH

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/BKBDLFWHNSNGZJO6O3WUUKZVCU \
  | 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: 0a823596c76c9a6ca5de76ed4a2b351504d8dc93babf51169cb1572a79a2e0e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b88105967683bd1d40d69e1164cd9113b0270b78595a976bfb6f500aa6338f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-08-19T00:11:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ad5bd876aa6ddfee0e19554bafbe66b1e4214aace07826fde966c3407bcaee87"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9808188",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}