Pith Number

pith:FU6HBAFR

pith:2015:FU6HBAFRM6TKETH7PYLMAY5VWO

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A Response to Elvis' 2015 Critique of the AURA Report "From Cosmic Birth to Living Earths"

Jason Tumlinson, John C. Mather, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Marc Postman, Sara Seager

arxiv:1511.01144 v2 · 2015-11-04 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FU6HBAFRM6TKETH7PYLMAY5VWO}

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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	2026-05-18T01:27:15.935696Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2d3c7080b167a6a24cff7e16c063b5b3a9fa0701d3da823968efe6b0a0209622

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.01144 · arxiv_version: 1511.01144v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.01144 · pith_short_12: FU6HBAFRM6TK · pith_short_16: FU6HBAFRM6TKETH7 · pith_short_8: FU6HBAFR

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/FU6HBAFRM6TKETH7PYLMAY5VWO \
  | 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: 2d3c7080b167a6a24cff7e16c063b5b3a9fa0701d3da823968efe6b0a0209622

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04133ba37009969d3dcffbdd081b02a3bf68bcf148999232e631106116cd8a2e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-04T14:44:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85265fa48174a68985b8261ab1bd18a22c6722e6300af37b736cffc7863d3a49"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.01144",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}