Pith Number

pith:CQDKBYS2

pith:2013:CQDKBYS2QNI2TFBZRZ35M4KZ4Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery of a Cosmological, Relativistic Outburst via its Rapidly Fading Optical Emission

Adam A. Miller, Adam N. Morgan, Alessandra Corsi, Alexei V. Filippenko, Arne Rau, Assaf Horesh, Assaf Sternberg, Avishay Gal-Yam, Branimir Sesar, Chelsea L. MacLeod, Dale A. Frail, Daniel A. Perley, David Polishook, Derek B. Fox, D. Gruber, Dovi Poznanski, Eran O. Ofek, G. Hallinan, Jeffrey M. Silverman, John Carpenter, Joshua S. Bloom, Ken J. Shen, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Nicholas M. Law, Paul J. Groot, Peter E. Nugent, Robert M. Quimby, S. Bradley Cenko, S. R. Kulkarni

arxiv:1304.4236 v1 · 2013-04-15 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CQDKBYS2QNI2TFBZRZ35M4KZ4Q}

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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	2026-05-18T01:50:32.560438Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1406a0e25a8351a994398e77d67159e4258aceba9145e1964fea42d4909758ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.4236 · arxiv_version: 1304.4236v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.4236 · pith_short_12: CQDKBYS2QNI2 · pith_short_16: CQDKBYS2QNI2TFBZ · pith_short_8: CQDKBYS2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CQDKBYS2QNI2TFBZRZ35M4KZ4Q \
  | 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: 1406a0e25a8351a994398e77d67159e4258aceba9145e1964fea42d4909758ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "18c406669a9567d35229c94d023ebb1306ac2219b52899f47d16352bdcce78f1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-15T20:00:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "939185fbc6144354cfca8f80c55f606dd13f5d4d197a953a4e496eb8dbdaa8d6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.4236",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}