Pith Number

pith:EY46J7M2

pith:2003:EY46J7M23IX7UEPJHHKQ2RU3QJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Polarization and light curve variability: the "patchy shell" model

Ehud Nakar, Yonatan Oren

arxiv:astro-ph/0310236 v2 · 2003-10-08 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EY46J7M23IX7UEPJHHKQ2RU3QJ}

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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	2026-07-04T16:37:30.375197Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2639e4fd9ada2ffa11e939d50d469b82745877207ea6890638943064ac303dbf

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0310236 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0310236v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0310236 · pith_short_12: EY46J7M23IX7 · pith_short_16: EY46J7M23IX7UEPJ · pith_short_8: EY46J7M2

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/EY46J7M23IX7UEPJHHKQ2RU3QJ \
  | 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: 2639e4fd9ada2ffa11e939d50d469b82745877207ea6890638943064ac303dbf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1db0ae374221c3b8dff92486883d4416d6882b9d625abc6f1d4832a354d532ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-10-08T22:06:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6a9fe0d9abe460ff0591bde8d643eabbd53705931a91e174439aa80faf1069e6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0310236",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}