Pith Number

pith:I7THVPPV

pith:2018:I7THVPPVL2P7RCMEZSHYPKZO2X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cataloging the Visible Universe through Bayesian Inference at Petascale

Andreas Noack, David Schlegel, Jarrett Revels, Jeffrey Regier, Jon McAuliffe, Keno Fischer, Kiran Pamnany, Maximilian Lam, Prabhat, Rollin Thomas, Ryan Giordano, Steve Howard

arxiv:1801.10277 v1 · 2018-01-31 · cs.DC · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I7THVPPVL2P7RCMEZSHYPKZO2X}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:41.251374Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

47e67abdf55e9ff88984cc8f87ab2ed5dcb155f564b06b37d6f5ff0e68da5cfb

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.10277 · arxiv_version: 1801.10277v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.10277 · pith_short_12: I7THVPPVL2P7 · pith_short_16: I7THVPPVL2P7RCME · pith_short_8: I7THVPPV

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/I7THVPPVL2P7RCMEZSHYPKZO2X \
  | 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: 47e67abdf55e9ff88984cc8f87ab2ed5dcb155f564b06b37d6f5ff0e68da5cfb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95690a79ae00de2332d3b3b96b04da7afdb8c26fc2db6392c63f7232fefa4288",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-31T02:17:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "df9804b2d8223c61d6c7cf88e0a14024834ef5fb4d2b0a90451c27a11a0f45df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.10277",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}