Pith Number

pith:EMSVH4VI

pith:2012:EMSVH4VIZFJMM7GDGB6TDFDZVZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Sizes of the Nearest Young Stars

Kyle A. McCarthy, Russel J. White

arxiv:1201.6600 v1 · 2012-01-31 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EMSVH4VIZFJMM7GDGB6TDFDZVZ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:56:33.803141Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

232553f2a8c952c67cc3307d319479ae6c575e10a1c420850560a8a2aed346d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.6600 · arxiv_version: 1201.6600v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.6600 · pith_short_12: EMSVH4VIZFJM · pith_short_16: EMSVH4VIZFJMM7GD · pith_short_8: EMSVH4VI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EMSVH4VIZFJMM7GDGB6TDFDZVZ \
  | 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: 232553f2a8c952c67cc3307d319479ae6c575e10a1c420850560a8a2aed346d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6f40186dec2ac2bd806346ae8be71e9ee476f1f60c6af52f30c4ba0013c8aa6b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-31T16:32:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "edeccd06e4605aa63ca9620e0493c6752aee7e797ee8b2173ce8a4053a4a9bf7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.6600",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}