Pith Number

pith:I5PTF3QR

pith:2017:I5PTF3QRDC2JG6SIUXTQVZQYDL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Empirical Study of Contamination in Deep, Rapid, and Wide-Field Optical Follow-Up of Gravitational Wave Events

A. Rest, B. D. Metzger, D. M. Scolnic, E. Berger, E. Quataert, M. R. Drout, P. K. G. Williams, P. S. Cowperthwaite, R. Chornock, R. J. Foley, R. Lunnan, R. Margutti, W. Fong

arxiv:1710.02144 v2 · 2017-10-05 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I5PTF3QRDC2JG6SIUXTQVZQYDL}

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:58.962675Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

475f32ee1118b4937a48a5e70ae6181aff680cc924408ca874d7059ecd4e95ea

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.02144 · arxiv_version: 1710.02144v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.02144 · pith_short_12: I5PTF3QRDC2J · pith_short_16: I5PTF3QRDC2JG6SI · pith_short_8: I5PTF3QR

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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/I5PTF3QRDC2JG6SIUXTQVZQYDL \
  | 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: 475f32ee1118b4937a48a5e70ae6181aff680cc924408ca874d7059ecd4e95ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c7d4ad9454638631950e06ebdfb3005921e2d88ad01e01dbd9785add59839cb4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-05T18:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da1c4788b18d7ade519f7abe3bdffcd3bc8a923a87428beda429e8f139d2465c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.02144",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}