Pith Number

pith:ETCOXQFQ

pith:2017:ETCOXQFQZFCCYK2GWG7RWMUNGZ

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Enabling near real-time remote search for fast transient events with lossy data compression

Bernard Meade, Dany Vohl, Igor Andreoni, Jeffrey Cooke, Tyler Pritchard

arxiv:1708.04605 v1 · 2017-08-15 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ETCOXQFQZFCCYK2GWG7RWMUNGZ}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:35:19.135242Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

24c4ebc0b0c9442c2b46b1bf1b328d3654fd853da91361e9ee5dddc3d9264835

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.04605 · arxiv_version: 1708.04605v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.04605 · pith_short_12: ETCOXQFQZFCC · pith_short_16: ETCOXQFQZFCCYK2G · pith_short_8: ETCOXQFQ

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/ETCOXQFQZFCCYK2GWG7RWMUNGZ \
  | 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: 24c4ebc0b0c9442c2b46b1bf1b328d3654fd853da91361e9ee5dddc3d9264835

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e247b8c098f931dbdc466ccea332b0876f52aec2e50d13fd02d16d591381f622",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-15T17:51:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b76d4667d76e317576fb030f2b6b31c7b40953408628ed3135cef7cd0093f0b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.04605",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}