Pith Number

pith:KBG3MIJJ

pith:1996:KBG3MIJJ6NO3MC3SVSMTGL7G35

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The optical counterpart of the supersoft Small Magellanic Cloud transient pulsar RX~J0059.2-7138

K.A. Southwell, P.A. Charles

arxiv:astro-ph/9606058 v1 · 1996-06-10 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KBG3MIJJ6NO3MC3SVSMTGL7G35}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:43.995719Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

504db62129f35db60b72ac99332fe6df5423748a1fe025897a257a2e9232406a

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9606058 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9606058v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9606058 · pith_short_12: KBG3MIJJ6NO3 · pith_short_16: KBG3MIJJ6NO3MC3S · pith_short_8: KBG3MIJJ

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/KBG3MIJJ6NO3MC3SVSMTGL7G35 \
  | 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: 504db62129f35db60b72ac99332fe6df5423748a1fe025897a257a2e9232406a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "45ee34a0d3acc363961ba69e4a5421728e703774f71a68d5f1b068562a0ba362",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-06-10T09:14:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f6e4ca3414cdced24fb9c34b788d4b07afb381e9e7292260a85bab9416999b37"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9606058",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}