Pith Number

pith:IZWVGDIS

pith:2018:IZWVGDISSCRCB7UKDZDQ7VZDQP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Results of a systematic search for outburst events in 1.4 million galaxies

A.A. Mahabal, A.J. Drake, D. Stern, E. Christensen, M. Catelan, M.J. Graham, S.G. Djorgovski, S. Larson

arxiv:1810.01448 v1 · 2018-10-02 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IZWVGDISSCRCB7UKDZDQ7VZDQP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:01.083970Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

466d530d1290a220fe8a1e470fd72383cf0ce8dd728e856a80d79eb049ff8d66

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.01448 · arxiv_version: 1810.01448v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.01448 · pith_short_12: IZWVGDISSCRC · pith_short_16: IZWVGDISSCRCB7UK · pith_short_8: IZWVGDIS

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/IZWVGDISSCRCB7UKDZDQ7VZDQP \
  | 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: 466d530d1290a220fe8a1e470fd72383cf0ce8dd728e856a80d79eb049ff8d66

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "910d41e1ed54d9b2d599f46547767d7f9c263cde50174133eb65ed93658c01e6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-02T18:35:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dca2e5be891d630e96abc8aaf8f7d1f785b0897ba7c5172d839a97c83af75f6e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.01448",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}