Pith Number

pith:FA5QXDX6

pith:2025:FA5QXDX6GWOMBZRPLHB5HQ6TOM

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Photonic Lightsails: Fast and Stable Propulsion for Interstellar Travel

Boris T. Kuhlmey, C. Martijn de Sterke, Jadon Y. Lin, Ognjen Ilic

arxiv:2502.17828 v1 · 2025-02-25 · astro-ph.IM · physics.app-ph · physics.optics

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Testing Black Holes with Interstellar Missions: I. Orbiting Probes

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:04:31.615457Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

283b0b8efe359cc0e62f59c3d3c3d37306d4ba409964f8563cd45e1ec86b2a20

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.17828 · arxiv_version: 2502.17828v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.17828 · pith_short_12: FA5QXDX6GWOM · pith_short_16: FA5QXDX6GWOMBZRP · pith_short_8: FA5QXDX6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FA5QXDX6GWOMBZRPLHB5HQ6TOM \
  | 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: 283b0b8efe359cc0e62f59c3d3c3d37306d4ba409964f8563cd45e1ec86b2a20

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a87112206ce61c176805d8e9a7ae76857cd003bc2e50a5b5591e8ac005d85dcf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.app-ph",
      "physics.optics"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-25T04:10:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a88ee46bdc1bb9e35b195416f3b739ced3f9a3ea0e7bc2d8257d50b7973ab6ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.17828",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}