Pith Number

pith:BLXKQGDI

pith:1999:BLXKQGDIUTHW7IGE3TVJJBMSF5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Plumes in stellar convection zones

Jean-Paul Zahn

arxiv:astro-ph/9909288 v1 · 1999-09-16 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BLXKQGDIUTHW7IGE3TVJJBMSF5}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:12.661652Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0aeea81868a4cf6fa0c4dcea9485922f759483eeaef443f6ea20e2eacaf97177

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9909288 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9909288v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9909288 · pith_short_12: BLXKQGDIUTHW · pith_short_16: BLXKQGDIUTHW7IGE · pith_short_8: BLXKQGDI

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/BLXKQGDIUTHW7IGE3TVJJBMSF5 \
  | 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: 0aeea81868a4cf6fa0c4dcea9485922f759483eeaef443f6ea20e2eacaf97177

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "25180c5626edd00ce9bf73ee6cebff1cc41adc99f3844b1acb3610f0c200dbf7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-09-16T12:26:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f8f79123625b78eb0008b8321fc816ac238975b78a18aad72a15d1f5d11b20b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9909288",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}