Pith Number

pith:FLI6A4JC

pith:1997:FLI6A4JC7IS2HV7B462VZTWWYX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Search for Variable Stars in the Globular Cluster M3

C.Clement (Toronto), J. Kaluzny (Warsaw), R.W. Hilditch (St. Andrews), S.M. Rucinski (CFHT)

arxiv:astro-ph/9709002 v1 · 1997-08-30 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FLI6A4JC7IS2HV7B462VZTWWYX}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:07:38.151828Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2ad1e07122fa25a3d7e1e7b55cced6c5c9adf9596d6417d8e9deed75a9c4cbba

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9709002 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9709002v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9709002 · pith_short_12: FLI6A4JC7IS2 · pith_short_16: FLI6A4JC7IS2HV7B · pith_short_8: FLI6A4JC

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/FLI6A4JC7IS2HV7B462VZTWWYX \
  | 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: 2ad1e07122fa25a3d7e1e7b55cced6c5c9adf9596d6417d8e9deed75a9c4cbba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8de53979c1c9a5d8abfff169e089b1ebe6abd24624c10fd86315f9b07e40e7d5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-08-30T14:21:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f90c7452bbe9b9da5b0ebd765ad025b45cbbceb2ce35a6d721ee2a66c3e2c1e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9709002",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}