Pith Number

pith:F5BUF43F

pith:2008:F5BUF43F5BKHBBULDQ2BDV2FIG

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The case for optical interferometric polarimetry

Anders M. Jorgensen, Carol E. Jones, Henrique R. Schmitt, Karine Perraut, Michael J. Ireland, Nicholas M. Elias II

arxiv:0811.3139 v1 · 2008-11-19 · astro-ph · astro-ph.SR

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:00:27.212007Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f4342f365e85470868b1c3411d745418fb657b242927ab4be6044b17a57b78b

Aliases

arxiv: 0811.3139 · arxiv_version: 0811.3139v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0811.3139 · pith_short_12: F5BUF43F5BKH · pith_short_16: F5BUF43F5BKHBBUL · pith_short_8: F5BUF43F

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/F5BUF43F5BKHBBULDQ2BDV2FIG \
  | 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: 2f4342f365e85470868b1c3411d745418fb657b242927ab4be6044b17a57b78b

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-11-19T15:40:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "abc0bc2c5955323cb91ac2e0a4f7ace2c58e6331b83077139e8b1d1522bd4f09"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0811.3139",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}