Pith Number

pith:KCWNIUWJ

pith:2004:KCWNIUWJVQCWI3KID5OCDVN5MW

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Random Numbers from Astronomical Imaging

Kevin A. Pimbblet, Michael Bulmer

arxiv:astro-ph/0408281 v1 · 2004-08-16 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KCWNIUWJVQCWI3KID5OCDVN5MW}

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Record completeness

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:17:24.399299Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

50acd452c9ac05646d481f5c21d5bd65b66b3e64eac27a26d25a9e6abcfe781e

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0408281 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0408281v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0408281 · pith_short_12: KCWNIUWJVQCW · pith_short_16: KCWNIUWJVQCWI3KI · pith_short_8: KCWNIUWJ

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/KCWNIUWJVQCWI3KID5OCDVN5MW \
  | 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: 50acd452c9ac05646d481f5c21d5bd65b66b3e64eac27a26d25a9e6abcfe781e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc8c890ef6ef5bab152acb98a3376f8c6a713c1f4a6a1fd192986081a4411d2a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-08-16T05:07:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3fcf7c88f6e1210a1f98d081f07ceeb0b9d1300873c6631345a1e93065df242e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0408281",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}