Pith Number

pith:JL3H3RDQ

pith:2001:JL3H3RDQI2DE75PH7XT6OQYAMJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The extraordinarily bright optical afterglow of GRB 991208 and its host galaxy

A. Henden, A. J. Castro-Tirado, A.K. Pandey, A. Magazzu, A. Shlyapnikov, A.V. Moiseev, B.L. Jensen, B. Stecklum, C. Blake, C. Kouveliotou, D. Hartmann, D. Heinlein, E. Palazzi, E. Pian, E. Rol, E. Xanthopoulos, F. Ghinassi, G. Feulner, H. Boehnhardt, H.E. Kristen, H. Hurley, H. Pedersen, J. Gorosabel, J. Greiner, J. Hjorth, J. Marti, J. M. Castro Cer\'on, J.M. Paredes, J. Smoker, J. Wall, L. Tommasi, M. Bremer, M.R. Zapatero-Osorio, N. Caon, N. Masetti, P. Vreeswijk, R.A.M.J. Wijers, R. Hudec, R. Sagar, S. Benetti, S.B. Pandey, S. Dreizler, S. Guziy, S. Klose, S.N. Dodonov, S. Toft, T.A. Fatkhullin, U. Hopp, V.L. Afanasiev, V. Mohan, V.N. Komarova, V. Simon, V. V. Sokolov

arxiv:astro-ph/0102177 v2 · 2001-02-09 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JL3H3RDQI2DE75PH7XT6OQYAMJ}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:11:03.842955Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4af67dc47046864ff5e7fde7e74300624f1df2e468212ac3283bfc5dd344fd64

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0102177 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0102177v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0102177 · pith_short_12: JL3H3RDQI2DE · pith_short_16: JL3H3RDQI2DE75PH · pith_short_8: JL3H3RDQ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JL3H3RDQI2DE75PH7XT6OQYAMJ \
  | 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: 4af67dc47046864ff5e7fde7e74300624f1df2e468212ac3283bfc5dd344fd64

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc6a2a0369a25c30a961973445ec0a80bf49a6a30e2e1eedeedfb74bf40ba396",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-02-09T22:33:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4e7bebaa8e79af919fcb9bd836f3b7d65e55626048685509863d283a3614cdbb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0102177",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}