Pith Number

pith:IKBYQAGC

pith:2019:IKBYQAGC6N6TP2B5L3UU6YZBYS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Opening the Treasure Chest in Carina

B. Mookerjea (TIFR, Bonn), D. Riquelme (MPIfR, E. Chambers (USRA/SOFIA), G. Sandell (IofA, H. Wiesemeyer (MPIfR, India), Mumbai, R. Guesten (MPIfR, Univ of Hawaii)

arxiv:1905.03161 v1 · 2019-05-08 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IKBYQAGC6N6TP2B5L3UU6YZBYS}

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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	2026-05-17T23:42:19.283551Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42838800c2f37d37e83d5ee94f6321c4990a8efd7e1b291b5b9fa3c0058909db

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.03161 · arxiv_version: 1905.03161v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.03161 · pith_short_12: IKBYQAGC6N6T · pith_short_16: IKBYQAGC6N6TP2B5 · pith_short_8: IKBYQAGC

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/IKBYQAGC6N6TP2B5L3UU6YZBYS \
  | 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: 42838800c2f37d37e83d5ee94f6321c4990a8efd7e1b291b5b9fa3c0058909db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "07355605f1307cf2729e40dceda78ebea5b036ffc5056aacc8ad65822d62a8c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-08T15:42:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce5b924b02eae90ff2d11f790be07c3fedd6b26d456726b0023dceb6ae9791b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.03161",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}