Pith Number

pith:G2CKBKSV

pith:2003:G2CKBKSVNZEIFCWW3P2KBN54WU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The essential signature of a massive starburst in a distant galaxy

C. Carilli (NRAO), M. Guelin (IRAM), P. Solomon (Stony Brook), P. Vanden Bout

arxiv:astro-ph/0312436 v1 · 2003-12-16 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G2CKBKSVNZEIFCWW3P2KBN54WU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:37.593729Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3684a0aa556e48828ad6dbf4a0b7bcb52315eebd0dda51144899c23a147c3b14

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0312436 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0312436v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0312436 · pith_short_12: G2CKBKSVNZEI · pith_short_16: G2CKBKSVNZEIFCWW · pith_short_8: G2CKBKSV

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/G2CKBKSVNZEIFCWW3P2KBN54WU \
  | 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: 3684a0aa556e48828ad6dbf4a0b7bcb52315eebd0dda51144899c23a147c3b14

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4b4ffb28038ea9c131d29aedf8f028ee88f3d40cf0adeb92f290e9e70cbc8d64",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-12-16T23:21:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d0cf11310eed93f5b47abf3789acf62862dcb68ddaa991dddecc7e01c6ecad7c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0312436",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}