Pith Number

pith:DT6ZGOJO

pith:2005:DT6ZGOJOQRVVTFNSIDG3CSXWKL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The lives and deaths of positrons in the interstellar medium

(2) Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements Toulouse France), N. Guessoum (1), P. Jean (2), Sciences UAE, W. Gillard (2) ((1) American University of Sharjah College of Arts

arxiv:astro-ph/0504186 v1 · 2005-04-07 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DT6ZGOJOQRVVTFNSIDG3CSXWKL}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:34.191334Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1cfd93392e846b5995b240cdb14af652eaafa93f7ed349193013d5cafc1e285d

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0504186 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0504186v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0504186 · pith_short_12: DT6ZGOJOQRVV · pith_short_16: DT6ZGOJOQRVVTFNS · pith_short_8: DT6ZGOJO

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/DT6ZGOJOQRVVTFNSIDG3CSXWKL \
  | 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: 1cfd93392e846b5995b240cdb14af652eaafa93f7ed349193013d5cafc1e285d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c2b0d578578805bffec934c821b8565554af016359f5c6a490480dc4d81e894",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-04-07T18:37:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75dd29d0259fc7ecfc0e2a290b8c151d34a33add4061d105eaacd017b996ee05"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0504186",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}