Pith Number

pith:JCQCPRAK

pith:2012:JCQCPRAKBUS3TNQM3UVLTCBUPV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Stony Brook / SMARTS Atlas of mostly Southern Novae

Andrew Battisti, Frederick M. Walter, Guy S. Stringfellow, Howard E. Bond, Sarah E. Towers

arxiv:1209.1583 v1 · 2012-09-07 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JCQCPRAKBUS3TNQM3UVLTCBUPV}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:54:38.555000Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

48a027c40a0d25b9b60cdd2ab988347d4cf690fca6df600e45f71b4136f20e42

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.1583 · arxiv_version: 1209.1583v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.1583 · pith_short_12: JCQCPRAKBUS3 · pith_short_16: JCQCPRAKBUS3TNQM · pith_short_8: JCQCPRAK

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/JCQCPRAKBUS3TNQM3UVLTCBUPV \
  | 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: 48a027c40a0d25b9b60cdd2ab988347d4cf690fca6df600e45f71b4136f20e42

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e6ff997e868a8cbff2f9882a813d0ca612a31223cea0aae75f1dcc1f8e8fdfd3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-07T16:15:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab710720a462689421522ae706e329e91d737f40e33259ecd749777d8f56aa97"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.1583",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}