Pith Number

pith:HNYLUG4F

pith:2026:HNYLUG4FPEIOCXNP6RBWREMFYM

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Searching for Fast Astronomical Transients in Archival Photographic Plates

Ivo Busko

arxiv:2603.20407 v3 · 2026-03-20 · astro-ph.IM

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\pithnumber{HNYLUG4FPEIOCXNP6RBWREMFYM}

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2 papers in Pith

Fast Astronomical Transients in Archival Photographic Plates: Using optical aberrations as a tool for discerning real images, from plate artifacts

Machine Learning Supports Existence of Previously Unrecognized Transient Astronomical Phenomena in Historical Observatory Images

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First computed	2026-06-23T02:13:22.789718Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b70ba1b857910e15daff443689185c33737160ed3ca3874d67511a1d07e3c19

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.20407 · arxiv_version: 2603.20407v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.20407 · pith_short_12: HNYLUG4FPEIO · pith_short_16: HNYLUG4FPEIOCXNP · pith_short_8: HNYLUG4F

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HNYLUG4FPEIOCXNP6RBWREMFYM \
  | 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: 3b70ba1b857910e15daff443689185c33737160ed3ca3874d67511a1d07e3c19

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c11aa9209d035fc8514f7ddb52cb78c1efb917acb75f94f7047349de0123a19f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-20T18:29:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e2765e1d996e039da137cb2fc5ad284e5aafbfcc50092a64615b64ccfddb087"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.20407",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}