Pith Number

pith:EB4KTY32

pith:2019:EB4KTY32WUDO65XX7ZAQH4LTJB

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GW170817 Afterglow Reveals that Short Gamma-Ray Bursts are Neutron Star Mergers

Andrew MacFadyen, Yiyang Wu

arxiv:1905.02665 v1 · 2019-05-07 · astro-ph.HE

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The Optical Afterglow of GW170817: An Off-axis Structured Jet and Deep Constraints on a Globular Cluster Origin

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First computed	2026-07-04T23:51:42.419357Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2078a9e37ab506ef76f7fe4103f1734853feb2519d74312d0c16c1657a70f88b

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.02665 · arxiv_version: 1905.02665v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.02665 · pith_short_12: EB4KTY32WUDO · pith_short_16: EB4KTY32WUDO65XX · pith_short_8: EB4KTY32

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EB4KTY32WUDO65XX7ZAQH4LTJB \
  | 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: 2078a9e37ab506ef76f7fe4103f1734853feb2519d74312d0c16c1657a70f88b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d53d6f4e862316b3f68cad72efbc4dcb68368e5f0928e96eb13e1157c1557f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-07T16:12:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0970ecbf4931f8d765879936f9f4585ad7ac92455617b734ebbfaea948198270"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.02665",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}