Pith Number

pith:E5HPXRIK

pith:2015:E5HPXRIKDEKSQ7FCWTRHFKKFG5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Radio SETI Observations of the Anomalous Star KIC 8462852

Chris Munson, Douglas A. Vakoch, G. R. Harp, J. C. Tarter, Jon Richards, Seth Shostak

arxiv:1511.01606 v3 · 2015-11-05 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E5HPXRIKDEKSQ7FCWTRHFKKFG5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:16:45.969708Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

274efbc50a1915287ca2b4e272a945377c111dafac3b8736fbcd5975d5d367bb

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.01606 · arxiv_version: 1511.01606v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.01606 · pith_short_12: E5HPXRIKDEKS · pith_short_16: E5HPXRIKDEKSQ7FC · pith_short_8: E5HPXRIK

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/E5HPXRIKDEKSQ7FCWTRHFKKFG5 \
  | 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: 274efbc50a1915287ca2b4e272a945377c111dafac3b8736fbcd5975d5d367bb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "926799251042481d16a959575708bc3a3ac7cad1b944f7e1ee150d9bda01c2a2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-05T04:17:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b19a2b5c68b95fc0afab8a5dc6dd5b94b1ca2e5a85b3cad1fc927015249acc3f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.01606",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}