Pith Number

pith:JOWWE64Z

pith:2003:JOWWE64ZTVOXUGDOIEVZSRMVAK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Variable Star Network: World Center for Transient Object Astronomy and Variable Stars

Bandung), C. Kunjaya (Kyoto U, D. Nogami (Kyoto U), H. Baba (Kyoto U, H. Yamaoka (Kyushu U), Institute of Technology, ISAS), M. Uemura, R. Ishioka, T. Kato

arxiv:astro-ph/0310209 v1 · 2003-10-08 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JOWWE64ZTVOXUGDOIEVZSRMVAK}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:38.099007Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4bad627b999d5d7a186e412b99459502aee4a4fb8a0fe4913e451cb1b5316dc3

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0310209 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0310209v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0310209 · pith_short_12: JOWWE64ZTVOX · pith_short_16: JOWWE64ZTVOXUGDO · pith_short_8: JOWWE64Z

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/JOWWE64ZTVOXUGDOIEVZSRMVAK \
  | 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: 4bad627b999d5d7a186e412b99459502aee4a4fb8a0fe4913e451cb1b5316dc3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bad2714825a90fe5ec33c971cc24ccd6ce6a03f76d44d3487cfa71e94e0af7d4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-10-08T13:46:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0f94eafe58e231994e4c8e08028104b97767ddda549e08c1d0c4e602acc2f52"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0310209",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}