Pith Number

pith:CIAEHH2A

pith:2025:CIAEHH2ALO2ICMNFI6TYA3XNSY

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Genesis of the James Webb Space Telescope Architecture: The Designers' Story

Bernard D. Seery, Charles Atkinson, David C. Redding, Garth D. Illingworth, Hervey Stockman, H. Philip Stahl, John C. Mather, Jonathan W. Arenberg, Larry Petro, Lee D. Feinberg, Mark Clampin, Massimo Stiavelli, Max Nein, Michael T. Menzel, Paul H. Geithner, Pierre Y. Bely, Richard Burg, Scott P. Willoughby

arxiv:2501.09072 v1 · 2025-01-15 · astro-ph.IM · physics.space-ph

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\pithnumber{CIAEHH2ALO2ICMNFI6TYA3XNSY}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-07-05T10:01:41.296464Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1200439f405bb48131a547a7806eed963ff2ef005e8c0fceee23dabe768c7a74

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.09072 · arxiv_version: 2501.09072v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.09072 · pith_short_12: CIAEHH2ALO2I · pith_short_16: CIAEHH2ALO2ICMNF · pith_short_8: CIAEHH2A

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/CIAEHH2ALO2ICMNFI6TYA3XNSY \
  | 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: 1200439f405bb48131a547a7806eed963ff2ef005e8c0fceee23dabe768c7a74

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "baacddb0238e7a3faea18d387901fd5d537c290e129b3afbc86e776510c38926",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.space-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-15T19:00:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae3b9c900fccd913b80a8e69a753240716adad1928e57bb9e4e75e3abfbfa94a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2501.09072",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}