Pith Number

pith:BNSGVIY3

pith:2018:BNSGVIY3IAEEOYCLW42RM6SPS3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Low Moderate Resolution Spectrograph Conceptual Design

Arlette P\'econtal, Christophe Y\`eche, Florence Laurent, Jean-Emmanuel Migniau, Johan Richard, Patrick Caillier, Pierre-Henri Carton, Will Saunders

arxiv:1807.09179 v1 · 2018-07-23 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BNSGVIY3IAEEOYCLW42RM6SPS3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:56.528474Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b646aa31b400847604bb735167a4f96e7ba67dd253a20448a40b18fd31b8cf5

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.09179 · arxiv_version: 1807.09179v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.09179 · pith_short_12: BNSGVIY3IAEE · pith_short_16: BNSGVIY3IAEEOYCL · pith_short_8: BNSGVIY3

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/BNSGVIY3IAEEOYCLW42RM6SPS3 \
  | 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: 0b646aa31b400847604bb735167a4f96e7ba67dd253a20448a40b18fd31b8cf5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0fbf21f47ff1f1517159c1510fbbd3a2f7736fccb699253669408f691e3b54b3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-23T16:35:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eafaacabbd3a4149638bbad77c41455e3f886564044e8afe0aeea25e4e0d624a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.09179",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}