Pith Number

pith:EX3EFQBD

pith:2008:EX3EFQBDDYLQ3N3H2RDYK7F37L

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Scanning strategies for imaging arrays

A. Kovacs

arxiv:0806.4888 v1 · 2008-06-30 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EX3EFQBDDYLQ3N3H2RDYK7F37L}

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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	2026-05-18T02:35:15.704344Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

25f642c0231e170db767d447857cbbfad6a863630dcbb16299b11444be767fee

Aliases

arxiv: 0806.4888 · arxiv_version: 0806.4888v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0806.4888 · pith_short_12: EX3EFQBDDYLQ · pith_short_16: EX3EFQBDDYLQ3N3H · pith_short_8: EX3EFQBD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EX3EFQBDDYLQ3N3H2RDYK7F37L \
  | 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: 25f642c0231e170db767d447857cbbfad6a863630dcbb16299b11444be767fee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6bab3e7db0b9c5da814d524cd014f442eab0228181501c632e9962a3b545cec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-06-30T13:53:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e68bf8c32746ed762d85a318f0800541051ec43c30ece96a76b5d14314b7163"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0806.4888",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}