Pith Number

pith:J6NC3HJ3

pith:1996:J6NC3HJ3K44GHGGYJCC6JQCB5W

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Precise Distance Indicator: Type Ia Supernova Multicolor Light Curve Shapes

Adam Riess, Robert Kirshner, William Press

arxiv:astro-ph/9604143 v1 · 1996-04-24 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J6NC3HJ3K44GHGGYJCC6JQCB5W}

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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.

Cited by

2 papers in Pith

Primordial Black Hole Triggered Type Ia Supernovae II: Comparison with Supernova Remnants and Galactic Chemical Evolution

Cosmological Impact of Redshift-Dependent Type Ia Supernovae Calibration

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:45:43.479056Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f9a2d9d3b57386398d84885e4c041eda641764b6199d7b34d41d74b02925445

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9604143 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9604143v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9604143 · pith_short_12: J6NC3HJ3K44G · pith_short_16: J6NC3HJ3K44GHGGY · pith_short_8: J6NC3HJ3

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/J6NC3HJ3K44GHGGYJCC6JQCB5W \
  | 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: 4f9a2d9d3b57386398d84885e4c041eda641764b6199d7b34d41d74b02925445

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f88084c0b565062bdeb1041ced796d1fd2c32bc77588ca0dff6fbedda5804ec5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-04-24T19:03:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a28e663de77bcc292cfb94b2d09fb24ef625b46c3555695c22f8dcacbe659cab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9604143",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}