Pith Number

pith:JFK6LFGD

pith:2022:JFK6LFGDI4C7MBWCPU3A6L43QL

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Characterization of LEO Satellites With All-Sky Photometric Signatures

Adam Block, Eric C. Pearce, Harrison Krantz

arxiv:2210.03215 v1 · 2022-10-06 · astro-ph.IM

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\pithnumber{JFK6LFGDI4C7MBWCPU3A6L43QL}

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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	2026-07-05T05:04:17.365672Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4955e594c34705f606c27d360f2f9b82d937400d53d57f45e2c4df326a618baf

Aliases

arxiv: 2210.03215 · arxiv_version: 2210.03215v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2210.03215 · pith_short_12: JFK6LFGDI4C7 · pith_short_16: JFK6LFGDI4C7MBWC · pith_short_8: JFK6LFGD

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/JFK6LFGDI4C7MBWCPU3A6L43QL \
  | 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: 4955e594c34705f606c27d360f2f9b82d937400d53d57f45e2c4df326a618baf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b96618217392471f375b67858b73d9469d612684ffc862d877ca4fbfa56a1132",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2022-10-06T21:19:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "77dd0aa5b337be752bfa5c356e5a57fc020270523455a9b853e7c3ddbf9675a7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2210.03215",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}