Pith Number

pith:JOETV6QC

pith:1995:JOETV6QCCYVPUHZHNAJ5Z4Q55H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Shell Masers

Moshe Elitzur (University of Kentucky), Spain), V. Bujarrabal (Yebes Observatory

arxiv:astro-ph/9508147 v2 · 1995-08-30 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JOETV6QCCYVPUHZHNAJ5Z4Q55H}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T04:21:40.917844Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b893afa02162afa1f276813dcf21de9fae823fc1a7f888d4ab638e942c800de

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9508147 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9508147v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9508147 · pith_short_12: JOETV6QCCYVP · pith_short_16: JOETV6QCCYVPUHZH · pith_short_8: JOETV6QC

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/JOETV6QCCYVPUHZHNAJ5Z4Q55H \
  | 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: 4b893afa02162afa1f276813dcf21de9fae823fc1a7f888d4ab638e942c800de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8dee265e19ce09175c21f27c09d51ea6d9c2f8fc089faeeee302688b1b3086c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1995-08-30T22:00:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d05bbc24719bbffa049235aa310a125bea8b5c7f6ceec9cc9e63ca8cded77033"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9508147",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}