Pith Number

pith:E5G3XLMV

pith:2026:E5G3XLMVVOPQGJROA625SZP5BL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Century of Novae in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Allen W. Shafter

arxiv:2607.23849 v1 · 2026-07-26 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E5G3XLMVVOPQGJROA625SZP5BL}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-28T01:23:14.193369Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

274dbbad95ab9f03262e07b5d965fd0acc453d785c97eb03c9aac36ed927624c

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.23849 · arxiv_version: 2607.23849v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.23849 · pith_short_12: E5G3XLMVVOPQ · pith_short_16: E5G3XLMVVOPQGJRO · pith_short_8: E5G3XLMV

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/E5G3XLMVVOPQGJROA625SZP5BL \
  | 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: 274dbbad95ab9f03262e07b5d965fd0acc453d785c97eb03c9aac36ed927624c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a88a2c1b6a91fa07fe112566790f768c7420a09af18a69d56a432b500807b471",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-26T21:27:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "087e2b6e23a5ad46ec35d266ada8bc7e8bc1880526de2b335447c77ecb01ed16"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.23849",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}