Pith Number

pith:G6LGBMMD

pith:2017:G6LGBMMDSIK4XRKIMI3DR6YFCY

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KIC 8462852 Brightness Pattern Repeating Every 1600 Days

Bruce Gary, Rafik Bourne

arxiv:1711.04205 v1 · 2017-11-11 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G6LGBMMDSIK4XRKIMI3DR6YFCY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:39.756816Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

379660b1839215cbc548623638fb051636e8b101dab188faf47588e62d07df5f

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.04205 · arxiv_version: 1711.04205v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.04205 · pith_short_12: G6LGBMMDSIK4 · pith_short_16: G6LGBMMDSIK4XRKI · pith_short_8: G6LGBMMD

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/G6LGBMMDSIK4XRKIMI3DR6YFCY \
  | 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: 379660b1839215cbc548623638fb051636e8b101dab188faf47588e62d07df5f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96ef4f066ab5da75e1ae468957aa1a9a5fbc6ee98259a47af565b755d83856cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-11T22:49:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d69cbbf632a7a7d5ea85824790b2dc59c5a282bdf8ba3d7a9cefcb2184347eb9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.04205",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}