Pith Number

pith:BLGBWISR

pith:2017:BLGBWISRCE5UC6GAJQ3ZWAION4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the eccentricity of Proxima b

Robert A. Brown

arxiv:1701.04063 v1 · 2017-01-15 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BLGBWISRCE5UC6GAJQ3ZWAION4}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:39:00.203257Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0acc1b2251113b4178c04c379b010e6f2272250436340ad990025c2c520e7282

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.04063 · arxiv_version: 1701.04063v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.04063 · pith_short_12: BLGBWISRCE5U · pith_short_16: BLGBWISRCE5UC6GA · pith_short_8: BLGBWISR

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/BLGBWISRCE5UC6GAJQ3ZWAION4 \
  | 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: 0acc1b2251113b4178c04c379b010e6f2272250436340ad990025c2c520e7282

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b00318b7e2b410596d0208c1f9d7e172fff721f4ef3a15b75e78052f79d91e5b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-15T15:55:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ff908014254fddef4d9211684b7ee26edf9c0ca055053e42f3e1ffd812d6a19a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.04063",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}