Pith Number

pith:BX3J3GE4

pith:2012:BX3J3GE4DXPUUNQHOXHKDSDY6W

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

CARMA CO(J = 2 - 1) Observations of the Circumstellar Envelope of Betelgeuse

Alexander Brown, Eamon O'Gorman, Graham M. Harper, Joanna M. Brown, Matthew J. Richter, Miguel A. Requena-Torres, Seth Redfield

arxiv:1206.4352 v1 · 2012-06-19 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BX3J3GE4DXPUUNQHOXHKDSDY6W}

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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	2026-05-18T01:56:50.559708Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0df69d989c1ddf4a360775cea1c878f5ab3b6ffb80acef1e0ec3ee8e070970e3

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.4352 · arxiv_version: 1206.4352v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.4352 · pith_short_12: BX3J3GE4DXPU · pith_short_16: BX3J3GE4DXPUUNQH · pith_short_8: BX3J3GE4

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/BX3J3GE4DXPUUNQHOXHKDSDY6W \
  | 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: 0df69d989c1ddf4a360775cea1c878f5ab3b6ffb80acef1e0ec3ee8e070970e3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52906b4d1b8f629ba9000a1240f7439df1f0e388069964f31d5f1d94327001e4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-19T22:43:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7f76a7a199a157e77d8faaeabc292dbfd625000bbad4936cdbb3ddf79cd9176c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.4352",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}