Pith Number

pith:ERKACXBH

pith:2008:ERKACXBH27UNIBNVG4RKL2H6VL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Dust Scattering Model Can Not Explain The Shallow X-ray Decay in GRB Afterglows

(2) U. of Leicester), Paul T. O'Brien (2), Pawan Kumar (1), Phil A. Evans (2) ((1) UT Austin, Richard Willingale (2), Rong-Feng Shen (1)

arxiv:0806.3541 v2 · 2008-06-22 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ERKACXBH27UNIBNVG4RKL2H6VL}

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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	2026-05-18T04:29:33.388420Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2454015c27d7e8d405b53722a5e8feaae8b616dc007107b30778313dd5d0be74

Aliases

arxiv: 0806.3541 · arxiv_version: 0806.3541v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0806.3541 · pith_short_12: ERKACXBH27UN · pith_short_16: ERKACXBH27UNIBNV · pith_short_8: ERKACXBH

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ERKACXBH27UNIBNVG4RKL2H6VL \
  | 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: 2454015c27d7e8d405b53722a5e8feaae8b616dc007107b30778313dd5d0be74

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3488f442578726e3aec9254063dd66e0af01c00eee1cf5b8522875042045ff5b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-06-22T02:19:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "678269b4f08f96df7e58e54d1506ea4240ef950d9ce778765cc2f09c96e51d79"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0806.3541",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}