Pith Number

pith:BWMF2BCJ

pith:2016:BWMF2BCJYCVONC6AOUARM7ZH6Z

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A High Braking Index for a Pulsar

D. Stern, E.F. Keane, E.V. Gotthelf, F.A. Harrison, J.A. Tomsick, M.J. Pivovaroff, R.D. Ferdman, R.F. Archibald, S. Guillot, S.P. Tendulkar, V.M. Kaspi

arxiv:1603.00305 v1 · 2016-03-01 · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BWMF2BCJYCVONC6AOUARM7ZH6Z}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:19:00.832306Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d985d0449c0aae68bc07501167f27f67aedb8840056972555d9ae740084da3f

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.00305 · arxiv_version: 1603.00305v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.00305 · pith_short_12: BWMF2BCJYCVO · pith_short_16: BWMF2BCJYCVONC6A · pith_short_8: BWMF2BCJ

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/BWMF2BCJYCVONC6AOUARM7ZH6Z \
  | 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: 0d985d0449c0aae68bc07501167f27f67aedb8840056972555d9ae740084da3f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "83b26273e55917a7ccb695622087d2e9c2e10b5edbc1efeee99902e67cfefc59",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-01T15:09:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8de9405f822d458a1e3836129d1ae8a83f1769ec3c12474212953b637bef0740"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.00305",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}