Pith Number

pith:GOK3C5AD

pith:2012:GOK3C5ADKIAS3EBCSYXH4HYK6I

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Pair-Instability Explosions: observational evidence

Avishay Gal-Yam

arxiv:1206.2157 v1 · 2012-06-11 · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GOK3C5ADKIAS3EBCSYXH4HYK6I}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:57:00.043049Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3395b1740352012d9022962e7e1f0af2000c6421e94965bc935ffd45a567eb65

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.2157 · arxiv_version: 1206.2157v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.2157 · pith_short_12: GOK3C5ADKIAS · pith_short_16: GOK3C5ADKIAS3EBC · pith_short_8: GOK3C5AD

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/GOK3C5ADKIAS3EBCSYXH4HYK6I \
  | 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: 3395b1740352012d9022962e7e1f0af2000c6421e94965bc935ffd45a567eb65

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a15605e5def0dfcbdbf39914d9b33f6dd9b7392a9ee6c94d6b6e85df93141ca3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-11T10:54:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6365e7a85243b3139bec3ab62668e681f519da52a3824e6e3664f170ce20a436"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.2157",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}