Pith Number

pith:IMQ6W2WD

pith:2008:IMQ6W2WD45OPSAFQDWF5J7FLHN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

First Results from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey

A. Boattini, A. Gibbs, A.J. Drake, A. Mahabal, E. Beshore, E. Christensen, M. Catelan, M.J. Graham, R. Hill, R. Kowalski, R. Williams, S.G. Djorgovski, S. Larson

arxiv:0809.1394 v2 · 2008-09-08 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IMQ6W2WD45OPSAFQDWF5J7FLHN}

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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

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:35:14.899251Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4321eb6ac3e75cf900b01d8bd4fcab3b7bbe1c5b738d1615d1cf8c992a27b21b

Aliases

arxiv: 0809.1394 · arxiv_version: 0809.1394v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0809.1394 · pith_short_12: IMQ6W2WD45OP · pith_short_16: IMQ6W2WD45OPSAFQ · pith_short_8: IMQ6W2WD

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/IMQ6W2WD45OPSAFQDWF5J7FLHN \
  | 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: 4321eb6ac3e75cf900b01d8bd4fcab3b7bbe1c5b738d1615d1cf8c992a27b21b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ad35c5db9fea0a2bd2b1dcc91558d5e9f8bdd1e4ee740da8bbe997b193b19c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-09-08T18:51:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d5bd93324c6094af950fb98d54eacfcc4803c1d8c5c2f11ae8276efad51a096f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0809.1394",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}