Pith Number

pith:D53VMPGC

pith:1996:D53VMPGCDVLNN4TSLO3OOIBS4C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Capture and Escape of Stars

J.L. Collett (Oxford), N.W. Evans (Oxford), S.N. Dutta (Ohio)

arxiv:astro-ph/9608127 v1 · 1996-08-20 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{D53VMPGCDVLNN4TSLO3OOIBS4C}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:40:19.555261Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1f77563cc21d56d6f2725bb6e72032e08b71b31560d386a1e55f96b46aaca47f

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9608127 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9608127v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9608127 · pith_short_12: D53VMPGCDVLN · pith_short_16: D53VMPGCDVLNN4TS · pith_short_8: D53VMPGC

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/D53VMPGCDVLNN4TSLO3OOIBS4C \
  | 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: 1f77563cc21d56d6f2725bb6e72032e08b71b31560d386a1e55f96b46aaca47f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da7056097ca85d8de14df20cb216921197063c039a114a68901e30ba23dce011",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-08-20T16:28:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b820af91f889304bdec33d09e51410c859ec71b97074065878a1f587cdd707b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9608127",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}