Pith Number

pith:EXQWMZKI

pith:2025:EXQWMZKIGK3ON62VE4BWNOSSSA

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VSTPOL: making the VST a large survey telescope for optical polarimetry

A. M. Magalhaes, A. Smette, A. van Vorstenbosch, D. Hutsemekers, D. Magrin, E. Cappellaro, E. Pian, F. Patat, F. Perrotta, F. Rigamonti, F. Snik, G. Capasso, G. Castignani, G. Umbriaco, G. Verdoes-Kleijn, J. Farinato, K. Kuijken, L. Marty, M. Cappi, M. Colapietro, M. Marconi, O. Hainaut, P. Bellutti, P. Rossettini, P. Schipani, P. Spano, R. Tomelleri, R. Z. Sanchez, S. Bagnulo, S. Covino, S. DOrsi, S. Savarese, V. Ripepi

arxiv:2505.07113 v1 · 2025-05-11 · astro-ph.IM

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:01:42.997550Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

25e166654832b6e6fb55270366ba52902f86387630679170840b391f59f006b3

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.07113 · arxiv_version: 2505.07113v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.07113 · pith_short_12: EXQWMZKIGK3O · pith_short_16: EXQWMZKIGK3ON62V · pith_short_8: EXQWMZKI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EXQWMZKIGK3ON62VE4BWNOSSSA \
  | 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: 25e166654832b6e6fb55270366ba52902f86387630679170840b391f59f006b3

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f1096604738382b9a34fd3decfc53554553a5423fa91b229231a4a2128286ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-11T20:45:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "81c7c282ec63010241d87f3c0878793395af08f3493347f4d4b03b88f09fa76d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.07113",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}