Pith Number

pith:FBVZHQW7

pith:2015:FBVZHQW77VQL2VLABFHKE6D53R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The dustiest Post-Main sequence stars in the Magellanic Clouds

Benjamin A. Sargent, Julia Roman-Duval, Margaret Meixner, Marta Sewilo, Martha L. Boyer, Olivia C. Jones, Sacha Hony

arxiv:1508.06999 v1 · 2015-08-27 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FBVZHQW77VQL2VLABFHKE6D53R}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:30:57.717556Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

286b93c2dffd60bd5560094ea2787ddc568cf1f050d8b1f1d8fed311100f9c67

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.06999 · arxiv_version: 1508.06999v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.06999 · pith_short_12: FBVZHQW77VQL · pith_short_16: FBVZHQW77VQL2VLA · pith_short_8: FBVZHQW7

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FBVZHQW77VQL2VLABFHKE6D53R \
  | 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: 286b93c2dffd60bd5560094ea2787ddc568cf1f050d8b1f1d8fed311100f9c67

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b1acee76a701247c1d12a1e20dc8e4dc027aea81eb8716251355dcffa5142a30",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-27T20:08:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b19a35b638eba60cdf9b9c4fa63e8b8abaafa0512cb22cedb6ceef40f3403ce3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.06999",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}