Pith Number

pith:JWYVESTK

pith:2016:JWYVESTKX2ZQ7THF5Z7USBQZD2

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Altitudinal dependence of meteor radio afterglows measured via optical counterparts

E. K. Sutton, F. K. Schinzel, G. B. Taylor, J.D. Dowell, J. M. Holmes, K. S. Obenberger, K. Stovall

arxiv:1609.04701 v1 · 2016-09-15 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.IM · physics.space-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JWYVESTKX2ZQ7THF5Z7USBQZD2}

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:35.832963Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4db1524a6abeb30fcce5ee7f4906191e8c80e944e793c6ce816120bc69df0bd0

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.04701 · arxiv_version: 1609.04701v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.04701 · pith_short_12: JWYVESTKX2ZQ · pith_short_16: JWYVESTKX2ZQ7THF · pith_short_8: JWYVESTK

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/JWYVESTKX2ZQ7THF5Z7USBQZD2 \
  | 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: 4db1524a6abeb30fcce5ee7f4906191e8c80e944e793c6ce816120bc69df0bd0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb2136608eb9679dc1419e527242343177c13041b9775f9a3314d6b9cbca9ca8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM",
      "physics.space-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-15T15:35:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d23ab96d0ea43cdd3666a991705f61e9f134b2585c1c32976a4c41ca3ea62552"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.04701",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}