Pith Number

pith:KDAF7P2K

pith:2017:KDAF7P2K2ZUNHGDYU3B3LRJINI

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Investigating gamma-ray fluxes from globular clusters

Christo Venter, Hambeleleni Ndiyavala, Petrus Paulus Kruger

arxiv:1712.07872 v1 · 2017-12-21 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KDAF7P2K2ZUNHGDYU3B3LRJINI}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:27:29.511918Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

50c05fbf4ad668d39878a6c3b5c5286a3edd6cfd46cd427324baaac1d5388c53

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.07872 · arxiv_version: 1712.07872v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.07872 · pith_short_12: KDAF7P2K2ZUN · pith_short_16: KDAF7P2K2ZUNHGDY · pith_short_8: KDAF7P2K

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/KDAF7P2K2ZUNHGDYU3B3LRJINI \
  | 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: 50c05fbf4ad668d39878a6c3b5c5286a3edd6cfd46cd427324baaac1d5388c53

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "edf45c0e9297624aab8e72428c5e11843f591c410af8883254e71cb397a57c33",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-21T10:57:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1f63e4b2072027c01b6ebde13a5efb950cb06a7635991c6c88930c536d7feac0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.07872",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}