Pith Number

pith:EYZSA2DV

pith:1997:EYZSA2DVDC6W27ZVZOW76RP3BF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gamma Ray Bursts from Baryon Decay in Neutron Stars

Abraham Loeb, Neil Turok, Ue-Li Pen

arxiv:astro-ph/9712178 v1 · 1997-12-15 · astro-ph · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EYZSA2DVDC6W27ZVZOW76RP3BF}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-04T16:03:32.085195Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

263320687518bd6d7f35cbadff45fb0957e10fdd456c3f19de2a90e5d6e4592b

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9712178 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9712178v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9712178 · pith_short_12: EYZSA2DVDC6W · pith_short_16: EYZSA2DVDC6W27ZV · pith_short_8: EYZSA2DV

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/EYZSA2DVDC6W27ZVZOW76RP3BF \
  | 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: 263320687518bd6d7f35cbadff45fb0957e10fdd456c3f19de2a90e5d6e4592b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4605b55762d95306d763cb537e399a34419c86dac9da5f4809ea4022d3b0b66f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-15T22:34:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c382544ad85b2209e5aa0a8e758ecebcb4d555bbf3e5ff658b769f40417ef848"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9712178",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}