Pith Number

pith:J56R6L3N

pith:1997:J56R6L3NQHC2EVMLVBACEJA7TQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The decay of optical emission from the Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 970228

Andrew Fruchter, Chryssa Kouveliotou, F. Duccio Macchetto, Jan van Paradijs, Kailash C. Sahu, Larry Petro, Mario Livio, Paul J. Groot, Titus J. Galama

arxiv:astro-ph/9712322 v1 · 1997-12-24 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J56R6L3NQHC2EVMLVBACEJA7TQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:14.552065Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f7d1f2f6d81c5a2558ba84022241f9c2809ac95964c4fe646b8f8402039a839

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9712322 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9712322v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9712322 · pith_short_12: J56R6L3NQHC2 · pith_short_16: J56R6L3NQHC2EVML · pith_short_8: J56R6L3N

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/J56R6L3NQHC2EVMLVBACEJA7TQ \
  | 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: 4f7d1f2f6d81c5a2558ba84022241f9c2809ac95964c4fe646b8f8402039a839

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bd45c69f1583d4a171b763f97a04e7528ee9221cf8bf567c74b94e7c1ec26f69",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-24T13:13:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3ce1af9cd8539ef502e8e9174034585cdc221ca79d9953a58d4360f8b8bba6c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9712322",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}