Pith Number

pith:GWB557XC

pith:2017:GWB557XCCOAVFVQFDSVB5MRCDN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Can Dips of Boyajian's Star be Explained by Circumsolar Rings?

J. I. Katz

arxiv:1705.08377 v2 · 2017-05-23 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GWB557XCCOAVFVQFDSVB5MRCDN}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:36:31.507374Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3583defee2138152d6051caa1eb2221b616c359aac6b7d217aa4de6f498cac24

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.08377 · arxiv_version: 1705.08377v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.08377 · pith_short_12: GWB557XCCOAV · pith_short_16: GWB557XCCOAVFVQF · pith_short_8: GWB557XC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GWB557XCCOAVFVQFDSVB5MRCDN \
  | 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: 3583defee2138152d6051caa1eb2221b616c359aac6b7d217aa4de6f498cac24

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9a969f85baf0d91d5bce4adff34d1d567a578e56ecf7156144d88e6698b056e5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-23T15:48:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c2e972bffc34f0695a412544c7026795881df56c7e96e180c4afd9c4a7a7fc6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.08377",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}