Pith Number

pith:CBES2BEZ

pith:1996:CBES2BEZO2RJ2OIS76G2JTA3N4

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Origin of the viewing-angle dependence of the optical continuum emission in quasars

Joanne C. Baker

arxiv:astro-ph/9611202 v1 · 1996-11-25 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CBES2BEZO2RJ2OIS76G2JTA3N4}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:40:18.744485Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

10492d049976a29d3912ff8da4cc1b6f344df3903fa1b026e1451f4f426b8c5e

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9611202 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9611202v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9611202 · pith_short_12: CBES2BEZO2RJ · pith_short_16: CBES2BEZO2RJ2OIS · pith_short_8: CBES2BEZ

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/CBES2BEZO2RJ2OIS76G2JTA3N4 \
  | 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: 10492d049976a29d3912ff8da4cc1b6f344df3903fa1b026e1451f4f426b8c5e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e1c96aed224e6c0418078004695684d096b28e0ea9961009624761ff620231c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-11-25T12:44:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "efd6f2abf2a9c224e6c99dfa31730d9168ec77b332f335aabea5537e5ca237e7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9611202",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}