Pith Number

pith:CGGX2QAW

pith:2014:CGGX2QAW2W6OKNMPDPFKJTEANX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Comet: A VOEvent Broker

John Swinbank

arxiv:1409.4805 v1 · 2014-09-16 · astro-ph.IM

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CGGX2QAW2W6OKNMPDPFKJTEANX}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:42:38.637725Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

118d7d4016d5bce5358f1bcaa4cc806df355be199f0420948fc83a02cccb215c

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.4805 · arxiv_version: 1409.4805v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.4805 · pith_short_12: CGGX2QAW2W6O · pith_short_16: CGGX2QAW2W6OKNMP · pith_short_8: CGGX2QAW

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/CGGX2QAW2W6OKNMPDPFKJTEANX \
  | 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: 118d7d4016d5bce5358f1bcaa4cc806df355be199f0420948fc83a02cccb215c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c7395b964bde75e10980237b2d7446af097c444c2d8444f4b713b08e9dfde011",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-16T21:12:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6de0076c77b812378c74dbdd6795d809f30981973e156c0450c7519899626455"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.4805",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}