Pith Number

pith:BXQXVPTG

pith:1997:BXQXVPTGVQSPK34QIB3W24CNZT

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The Gaussian Plasma Lens in Astrophysics. Refraction

Alan L. Fey (USNO), Andrew W. Clegg (NRL), NRC), T. Joseph W. Lazio (NRL

arxiv:astro-ph/9709249 v1 · 1997-09-25 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BXQXVPTGVQSPK34QIB3W24CNZT}

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4 Citations 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.

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1 paper in Pith

Simulating FRB Morphologies and Coherent Phase Correlation Signatures from Multi-Plane Astrophysical Lensing

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:03:15.664605Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0de17abe66ac24f56f9040776d704dccc6b58ea9a0863e0a4c6412072d352d5d

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9709249 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9709249v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9709249 · pith_short_12: BXQXVPTGVQSP · pith_short_16: BXQXVPTGVQSPK34Q · pith_short_8: BXQXVPTG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BXQXVPTGVQSPK34QIB3W24CNZT \
  | 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: 0de17abe66ac24f56f9040776d704dccc6b58ea9a0863e0a4c6412072d352d5d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eddeb1709119edaf2fc5f6116b29aa325aaf5647734a432dd87e9fe13b06cebf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-09-25T12:37:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "760c92412c6b0d4bd8c21095028c2706c2c81aaa2d49e7d3a71337357f9b413a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9709249",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}