Pith Number

pith:HGY55HCZ

pith:1998:HGY55HCZR6LVZGUSELADXLYGFJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

NASA's Next Generation Space Telescope:Visiting a Time When Galaxies Were Young

Bernard D. Seery, Eric P. Smith, John C. Mather

arxiv:astro-ph/9808053 v1 · 1998-08-06 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HGY55HCZR6LVZGUSELADXLYGFJ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:40:13.800696Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

39b1de9c598f975c9a9222c03baf062a6010889f3997a0691255121fa87f5208

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9808053 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9808053v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9808053 · pith_short_12: HGY55HCZR6LV · pith_short_16: HGY55HCZR6LVZGUS · pith_short_8: HGY55HCZ

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/HGY55HCZR6LVZGUSELADXLYGFJ \
  | 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: 39b1de9c598f975c9a9222c03baf062a6010889f3997a0691255121fa87f5208

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5645ff96231753b6c0ad7396d51b5e5e380dfcea3861967af4fa71431cf28ced",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-08-06T21:05:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa4328bee8ec323b023152832d8c84a7b5e751d997dc0e8006a39a9dea7b911f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9808053",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}