Pith Number

pith:GHA7U543

pith:2016:GHA7U543MGWK7UWSFUKZLHCVS6

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A novel method for transient detection in high-cadence optical surveys: Its application for a systematic search for novae in M31

Allen W. Shafter, Eran O. Ofek, Eric Bellm, Frank Masci, Marat Gilfanov, Monika D. Soraisam, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Thomas A. Prince, Thomas Kupfer

arxiv:1612.00116 v1 · 2016-12-01 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{GHA7U543MGWK7UWSFUKZLHCVS6}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:49:51.010530Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

31c1fa779b61acafd2d22d15959c5597994f45fd15742d3a5e801a20e1ebc979

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.00116 · arxiv_version: 1612.00116v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.00116 · pith_short_12: GHA7U543MGWK · pith_short_16: GHA7U543MGWK7UWS · pith_short_8: GHA7U543

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GHA7U543MGWK7UWSFUKZLHCVS6 \
  | 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: 31c1fa779b61acafd2d22d15959c5597994f45fd15742d3a5e801a20e1ebc979

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30e7df5568a131a0dadf6ab71811bd975b237cb3a2b496aa64baba06be136cb3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-01T02:26:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "564b5b88b01e26ca11e723eedc622359d201d532a7f1f2dbe2f3d26586a4ae0a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.00116",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}