Pith Number

pith:JVCOCCX4

pith:2017:JVCOCCX427ZU5CP4XSDNBLBTPR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Multiwavelength observations of nova SMCN 2016-10a --- one of the brightest novae ever observed

A. Kniazev, A. P. Beardmore, A. Udalski, D. Buckley, E. Aydi, F. M. Walter, J. P. Osborne, J. Strader, K. L. Page, L. Chomiuk, M. J. Darnley, M. Orio, N. P. M. Kuin, P. Mr\'oz, P. Whitelock, P. Woudt, R. E. Williams, S. C. Williams, S. Mohamed, V. A. R. M. Ribeiro

arxiv:1710.03716 v1 · 2017-10-10 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JVCOCCX427ZU5CP4XSDNBLBTPR}

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Record completeness

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:27:18.742074Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4d44e10afcd7f34e89fcbc86d0ac337c7cc98cdcd3361648deff7ca9832155e1

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.03716 · arxiv_version: 1710.03716v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.03716 · pith_short_12: JVCOCCX427ZU · pith_short_16: JVCOCCX427ZU5CP4 · pith_short_8: JVCOCCX4

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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/JVCOCCX427ZU5CP4XSDNBLBTPR \
  | 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: 4d44e10afcd7f34e89fcbc86d0ac337c7cc98cdcd3361648deff7ca9832155e1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "61b557caf93deaa59ba6a6dc1feb3d8dc18581bd6214d3b8c32915c769940d7c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-10T16:42:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9d92a65d2e9cca263dae44db33e5fa2113bce4e4c7d72db8047397e3b9460917"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.03716",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}