Pith Number

pith:F3AY2V3X

pith:2000:F3AY2V3X5WMOBHE7GMPYI2OK23

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Comptonization of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Relativistic Plasma

Christian R. Kaiser (MPI fuer Astrophysik, Garching), Torsten A. Ensslin

arxiv:astro-ph/0001429 v2 · 2000-01-25 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F3AY2V3X5WMOBHE7GMPYI2OK23}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T04:21:42.767782Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ec18d5777ed98e09c9f331f8469cad6de577fa492c5aa2ced0f1f18e51b4835

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0001429 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0001429v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0001429 · pith_short_12: F3AY2V3X5WMO · pith_short_16: F3AY2V3X5WMOBHE7 · pith_short_8: F3AY2V3X

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/F3AY2V3X5WMOBHE7GMPYI2OK23 \
  | 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: 2ec18d5777ed98e09c9f331f8469cad6de577fa492c5aa2ced0f1f18e51b4835

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4366901bc8c646175f07be7b8a8bb024869432bdea0acc1f34c8fc65aaf224f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-01-25T17:05:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6eade0407bca10411bc922e17d1fbfed9860bfde8b1a5ede89bc38384bac4a5e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0001429",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}