Pith Number

pith:JMPLZH3X

pith:2018:JMPLZH3XFKN25MHB6HTCNB2EUE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The optical afterglow of the short gamma-ray burst associated with GW170817

A. de Ugarte Postigo, A. J. Levan, A. Rowlinson, A. S. Fruchter, B. Gompertz, B. Milvang-Jensen, C. Copperwheat, C. C. Th\"one, C. Gall, D. A. Perley, D. J. Watson, D. Steeghs, E. Palazzi, E. Pian, E. R. Stanway, G. P. Lamb, I. A. Steele, I. Mandel, J. D. Lyman, J. Hjorth, J. P. Osborne, J. P. U. Fynbo, K. Wiersema, L. Izzo, M. Im, N. R. Tanvir, P. A. Evans, P. Jakobsson, P. O'Brien, P. Sutton, R. A. M. J. Wijers, S. Kobayashi, S. Rosswog, S. Schulze, T. Kangas, Z. Cano

arxiv:1801.02669 v3 · 2018-01-08 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JMPLZH3XFKN25MHB6HTCNB2EUE}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:05:23.870269Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b1ebc9f772a9baeb0e1f1e6268744a1296de1e96c42c587bd63ea10688eb7c8

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.02669 · arxiv_version: 1801.02669v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.02669 · pith_short_12: JMPLZH3XFKN2 · pith_short_16: JMPLZH3XFKN25MHB · pith_short_8: JMPLZH3X

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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/JMPLZH3XFKN25MHB6HTCNB2EUE \
  | 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: 4b1ebc9f772a9baeb0e1f1e6268744a1296de1e96c42c587bd63ea10688eb7c8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae96080590b9d6e1a5e93e67627a1602143900498b64db1b81d4fbcc76b922cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-08T20:09:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1580c367ecbb84325a84f324950fff2cc630ba4c0a3e271f0987923d60731ec6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.02669",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}