Pith Number

pith:CGHI3TNI

pith:1999:CGHI3TNIXQTD57GUU5YL4FZWO6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The X-ray, Optical and Infrared Counterpart to GRB 980703

A. Blain, A.M. Levine, A. Owens, A. Pizzella, C. Kouveliotou, C. Lidman, C. Robinson, D.A. Smith, E. Costa, E. Leibowitz, E. Palazzi, E. Pian, F. Frontera, H. Boehnhardt, I. Smail, J. Greiner, J. Heise, J.H. Hough, J.J.M. in 't Zand, J. van Paradijs, K. Hurley, L.A. Antonelli, L. Piro, M. Briggs, M. Feroci, N. Masetti, N. Suntzeff, N. Tanvir, P.J. Groot, P.M. Vreeswijk, R.A.M.J. Wijers, S. Chaty, S. Young, T.J. Galama, T. Koshut, T. Oosterbroek, T.R. Geballe, V. Doublier, Y. Lipkin

arxiv:astro-ph/9904286 v1 · 1999-04-21 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CGHI3TNIXQTD57GUU5YL4FZWO6}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:32:55.463229Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

118e8dcda8bc263efcd4a770be173677b483faebc04c5239e4bda62d8a5743e3

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9904286 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9904286v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9904286 · pith_short_12: CGHI3TNIXQTD · pith_short_16: CGHI3TNIXQTD57GU · pith_short_8: CGHI3TNI

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/CGHI3TNIXQTD57GUU5YL4FZWO6 \
  | 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: 118e8dcda8bc263efcd4a770be173677b483faebc04c5239e4bda62d8a5743e3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "021bb2577e25c42a9b81ffd185b3ff38a0b2c7bc12d69a95f8479b561a71dd5e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-04-21T14:43:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12ae90475f1b90fd0fea2f92c38dcc7a330479aac094ebe81f7b36dc111697b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9904286",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}