Pith Number

pith:KBCMNR7A

pith:2011:KBCMNR7A25UOECLRIBMS4N44E3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Discovery and Nature of Optical Transient CSS100217:102913+404220

A.D. Myers, A.J. Drake, A. Mahabal, Aritra Basu, Brijesh Kumar, D. Frail, D.L. Wood, D. Thompson, E. Beshore, E. Christensen, E. Recillas, E.S. Phinney, F.K. Schinzel, James D. Neill, J. Anderson, J. Chiang, J.E. Grove, J.L. Prieto, J. Thorstensen, K.N. Archana, L. Carrasco, L.C. Ho, L. Kewley, M. Catelan, M.J. Graham, M. Wagner, R. Kowalski, R. Roy, R. Williams, S.G. Djorgovski, S. Gezari, S. Larson, S. Ravindranath, V. Mohan, Yogesh Wadadekar

arxiv:1103.5514 v1 · 2011-03-29 · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KBCMNR7A25UOECLRIBMS4N44E3}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:02:43.797550Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5044c6c7e0d768e2097140592e379c26ddfdab7631fa109d1c4e9b1e68ced105

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.5514 · arxiv_version: 1103.5514v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.5514 · pith_short_12: KBCMNR7A25UO · pith_short_16: KBCMNR7A25UOECLR · pith_short_8: KBCMNR7A

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/KBCMNR7A25UOECLRIBMS4N44E3 \
  | 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: 5044c6c7e0d768e2097140592e379c26ddfdab7631fa109d1c4e9b1e68ced105

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "feda2ec87aa834ece3ac7a9a3a239c0e76ce3df3637f82dfdd2d003bd1e70220",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-29T00:07:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ef59699485b48830528a60e2f76612657d4ca5d01b5647a7febbf3ec409c0d71"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.5514",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}