Pith Number

pith:J35D2FBL

pith:1996:J35D2FBLKVD3T6LQXPEMYIPWTQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Maximum Brightness and Post-Maximum Decline of Light Curves of SN~Ia: A Comparison of Theory and Observations

A. Khokhlov, J.C. Wheeler, M. Hamuy, M.M. Phillips, N.B. Suntzeff, P. H\"oflich

arxiv:astro-ph/9609070 v1 · 1996-09-09 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{J35D2FBLKVD3T6LQXPEMYIPWTQ}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T01:07:40.847138Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4efa3d142b5547b9f970bbc8cc21f69c18e0c4c1eaab9c164d7cae599450ec92

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9609070 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9609070v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9609070 · pith_short_12: J35D2FBLKVD3 · pith_short_16: J35D2FBLKVD3T6LQ · pith_short_8: J35D2FBL

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/J35D2FBLKVD3T6LQXPEMYIPWTQ \
  | 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: 4efa3d142b5547b9f970bbc8cc21f69c18e0c4c1eaab9c164d7cae599450ec92

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "78bc245bd0425e806cd9a529c36d94fe3c5596aea1bb8971f5c72f422f8aa40f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-09T16:23:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b2444e38bed388d56ce12ab6af800a824e31b2ce6a689e8682abc32e34bd36f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9609070",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}