Pith Number

pith:K6DTVGAW

pith:2018:K6DTVGAWCF4UV6A7I3MMVXNAKM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Data as a Research Infrastructure - CDS, the Virtual Observatory, Astronomy, and beyond

Francoise Genova

arxiv:1803.05842 v1 · 2018-03-15 · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K6DTVGAWCF4UV6A7I3MMVXNAKM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:42.994779Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

57873a981611794af81f46d8cadda053095bc9799223c6c19480efdd5e20a266

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.05842 · arxiv_version: 1803.05842v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.05842 · pith_short_12: K6DTVGAWCF4U · pith_short_16: K6DTVGAWCF4UV6A7 · pith_short_8: K6DTVGAW

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/K6DTVGAWCF4UV6A7I3MMVXNAKM \
  | 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: 57873a981611794af81f46d8cadda053095bc9799223c6c19480efdd5e20a266

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf0cc4b400478aeeb6a764b9f853ba815cde5a285d681c311effc6be0c935ba6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-15T16:36:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0922321b19ee5a5173bb14dbf4c0f095e7c6bf4ce00e1be98e8774f83832b234"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.05842",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}