Pith Number

pith:KAS4Q6D7

pith:2014:KAS4Q6D7DHKV7E4RAC6MDPGCG7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

X-Ray Polarimetry

Philip Kaaret (University of Iowa)

arxiv:1408.5899 v3 · 2014-08-25 · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KAS4Q6D7DHKV7E4RAC6MDPGCG7}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:23:12.596181Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5025c8787f19d55f939100bcc1bcc237e0b2b7e03511bd11083668a73af11060

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.5899 · arxiv_version: 1408.5899v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.5899 · pith_short_12: KAS4Q6D7DHKV · pith_short_16: KAS4Q6D7DHKV7E4R · pith_short_8: KAS4Q6D7

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/KAS4Q6D7DHKV7E4RAC6MDPGCG7 \
  | 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: 5025c8787f19d55f939100bcc1bcc237e0b2b7e03511bd11083668a73af11060

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d54352458c6c99d3b852f8635541aa140e6bddb78f596b894319d991f0402246",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-25T20:00:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "993e04e5a684e08ecb1d63e5e32dafac070d1652d7ef90fdd1bb25b7466e87ef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.5899",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}