Pith Number

pith:BVN3JHB3

pith:2008:BVN3JHB3OHPTRDZAGZAMLZZMIP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

LMC X-3 May Be a Relic of a GRB Similar to Cosmological GRBs

C.-H. Lee, E. Moreno Mendez, G.E. Brown

arxiv:0801.0477 v1 · 2008-01-03 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BVN3JHB3OHPTRDZAGZAMLZZMIP}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T17:08:16.980390Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d5bb49c3b71df388f203640c5e72c43c056092aa06b1ae0ab2e46523480335e

Aliases

arxiv: 0801.0477 · arxiv_version: 0801.0477v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0801.0477 · pith_short_12: BVN3JHB3OHPT · pith_short_16: BVN3JHB3OHPTRDZA · pith_short_8: BVN3JHB3

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/BVN3JHB3OHPTRDZAGZAMLZZMIP \
  | 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: 0d5bb49c3b71df388f203640c5e72c43c056092aa06b1ae0ab2e46523480335e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2f4a28807299365a6c18c0fff6eaeb0b4ac7d1dc71a188db9174c62fe020f61e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-01-03T05:17:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a2fea30f94a9e6b93a477195b4adf321bb79f65f17b3230d9d3dd3e4dc4c9b74"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0801.0477",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}