Pith Number

pith:JKE3HOLM

pith:2012:JKE3HOLMMDFQG2XY7ARQ3TDQ2J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optical and X-ray Transients from Planet-Star Mergers

Brian D. Metzger (Princeton), David S. Spiegel (IAS), Dimitrios Giannios (Princeton)

arxiv:1204.0796 v1 · 2012-04-03 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JKE3HOLMMDFQG2XY7ARQ3TDQ2J}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:57:57.447040Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4a89b3b96c60cb036af8f8230dcc70d26bd32c68cb6b05c9f4fff16e52090f83

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.0796 · arxiv_version: 1204.0796v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.0796 · pith_short_12: JKE3HOLMMDFQ · pith_short_16: JKE3HOLMMDFQG2XY · pith_short_8: JKE3HOLM

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/JKE3HOLMMDFQG2XY7ARQ3TDQ2J \
  | 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: 4a89b3b96c60cb036af8f8230dcc70d26bd32c68cb6b05c9f4fff16e52090f83

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0f0cabf4c1e6f8a5ec190116175679a99389967fab74301a338724107af33e2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-03T20:09:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "64534ea672c3d758475e6cf5e4149f827643437354b70820dd9748462690cfac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.0796",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}