Pith Number

pith:KBNR5XB2

pith:2010:KBNR5XB2MSV5R2UCQAV73FIGGM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Wide Field X-ray Telescope: Mission Overview

A. Ptak, C. Jones, M. Paolillo, M. Weisskopf, P. Rosati, P. Tozzi, R. Giacconi, R. Gilli, S. Borgani, S. Murray, the WFXT Team, W. Forman

arxiv:1010.6252 v1 · 2010-10-29 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KBNR5XB2MSV5R2UCQAV73FIGGM}

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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	2026-05-18T04:38:07.233935Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

505b1edc3a64abd8ea82802bfd950633021d3ea117b911716c9627491c073d2d

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.6252 · arxiv_version: 1010.6252v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.6252 · pith_short_12: KBNR5XB2MSV5 · pith_short_16: KBNR5XB2MSV5R2UC · pith_short_8: KBNR5XB2

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/KBNR5XB2MSV5R2UCQAV73FIGGM \
  | 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: 505b1edc3a64abd8ea82802bfd950633021d3ea117b911716c9627491c073d2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0858b8683b2ae87062308cd5a0e89b4973245db2dedb76670a05ef73dd17116c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-29T15:38:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9dc98152c5814a4808b64e49c31bf3e68c3db02ead844416f40fd28f77080b40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.6252",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}