Pith Number

pith:D4CTCIMA

pith:2017:D4CTCIMA25MP6B4WUXSUXOL3HG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Hubble Space Telescope Survey for Novae in M87. II. Snuffing out the Maximum Magnitude - Rate of Decline Relation for Novae as a Non-Standard Candle, and a Prediction of the Existence of Ultrafast Novae

Attay Kovetz, David Zurek, Dina Prialnik, Doug L. Welch, Edward A. Baltz, J.D. Neill, Joanna Mikolajewska, Juan P. Madrid, Michael M. Shara, Ofer Yaron, Tod R. Lauer, Trisha Doyle

arxiv:1702.05788 v1 · 2017-02-19 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D4CTCIMA25MP6B4WUXSUXOL3HG}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:45:11.643015Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1f05312180d758ff0796a5e54bb97b39a1f18ed45b31f11f251dfdf58e2e2d58

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.05788 · arxiv_version: 1702.05788v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.05788 · pith_short_12: D4CTCIMA25MP · pith_short_16: D4CTCIMA25MP6B4W · pith_short_8: D4CTCIMA

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/D4CTCIMA25MP6B4WUXSUXOL3HG \
  | 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: 1f05312180d758ff0796a5e54bb97b39a1f18ed45b31f11f251dfdf58e2e2d58

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7b5853f631c5951e882366b76a39dfc83a59546325fff74ed005d48562a3031c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-19T19:36:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ebbf16bca57b242b724e4ca7b913edc672182eabe647fd612eb822c0389797ce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.05788",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}