Pith Number

pith:C2P5DDVM

pith:2019:C2P5DDVMET3OVSI7ZVDZIP74ZB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Luminous Red Novae: Stellar Mergers or Giant Eruptions?

A. Dimai, A. J. Drake, A. Morales-Garoffolo, A. Pastorello, A. Reguitti, C. Inserra, D. E. Wright, E. Cappellaro, E. Congiu, E. J. Christensen, E. Kankare, E. Mason, F. Briganti, F. Bufano, F. Ciabattari, F. Martinelli, G. Cortini, G. Pignata, G. Terreran, J. Brimacombe, J. Sollerman, K. Maguire, L. Magill, L. Tartaglia, L. Tomasella, M. Berton, M. Fraser, M. T. Botticella, M. Turatto, N. Elias-Rosa, P. Ochner, R. Kotak, S. Benetti, S. Chen, S. G. Djorgovski, S. J. Smartt, S. Spiro, S. Taubenberger, Y.-Z. Cai

arxiv:1906.00812 v2 · 2019-06-03 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C2P5DDVMET3OVSI7ZVDZIP74ZB}

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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	2026-07-05T00:06:45.330742Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

169fd18eac24f6eac91fcd47943ffcc8739701bf253b19d3e4d2aea960cb8ec4

Aliases

arxiv: 1906.00812 · arxiv_version: 1906.00812v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.00812 · pith_short_12: C2P5DDVMET3O · pith_short_16: C2P5DDVMET3OVSI7 · pith_short_8: C2P5DDVM

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/C2P5DDVMET3OVSI7ZVDZIP74ZB \
  | 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: 169fd18eac24f6eac91fcd47943ffcc8739701bf253b19d3e4d2aea960cb8ec4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5e865ba82c33b39309975918911e89e98803b887a077b595a5f1fa2edd3eb27c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-03T13:47:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "047006b8aa73f8beb363c31d3b0a1619382ce0ce2f73a15c02713ec8602b6347"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1906.00812",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}