Pith Number

pith:CT3ERMPT

pith:2013:CT3ERMPTEG6AD4C7GGB6DWQNIT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Hubble Space Telescope Pre-Perihelion ACS/WFC Imaging Polarimetry of Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) at 3.81 AU

Carey M. Lisse, Dean C. Hines, Derek Hammer, Evgenij Zubko, Gorden Videen, Karri Muinonen, Matthew M. Knight, Max Mutchler, Michael L. Sitko, Padmavati A. Yanamandra-Fisher, Vadim G. Kaydash, Yuriy Shkuratov

arxiv:1311.4896 v1 · 2013-11-19 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CT3ERMPTEG6AD4C7GGB6DWQNIT}

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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	2026-05-18T01:46:22.762285Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

14f648b1f321bc01f05f3183e1da0d44d22462007cf5342c437e41faef22cb35

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.4896 · arxiv_version: 1311.4896v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.4896 · pith_short_12: CT3ERMPTEG6A · pith_short_16: CT3ERMPTEG6AD4C7 · pith_short_8: CT3ERMPT

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/CT3ERMPTEG6AD4C7GGB6DWQNIT \
  | 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: 14f648b1f321bc01f05f3183e1da0d44d22462007cf5342c437e41faef22cb35

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d52501813448535082105054a4acb022e4d7cd78fc5d7846426893fe3776f64",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-19T21:21:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a790bead60cd5c308781c5a9cd3aa74a55431d7a5dc7308048b1facf7e8851b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.4896",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}