Pith Number

pith:KJIGVCJK

pith:1997:KJIGVCJKMLLXGN44C6TYPENMYO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Further evidence for the planet around 51 Pegasi

Artie P. Hatzes, Eric J. Bakker, William D. Cochran

arxiv:astro-ph/9712316 v1 · 1997-12-23 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KJIGVCJKMLLXGN44C6TYPENMYO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:37.897532Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

52506a892a62d773379c17a78791acc394e6d172f82f1b774f96a2e32e0f8c51

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9712316 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9712316v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9712316 · pith_short_12: KJIGVCJKMLLX · pith_short_16: KJIGVCJKMLLXGN44 · pith_short_8: KJIGVCJK

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/KJIGVCJKMLLXGN44C6TYPENMYO \
  | 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: 52506a892a62d773379c17a78791acc394e6d172f82f1b774f96a2e32e0f8c51

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0037f38459494ce046f03e4505e2244c58f8b7a3832ae6309fb877be953c1e77",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-23T19:50:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d38c2d9ede8d92f02da2cd37f4261058eb2f396efeb55c656a7911a590ec159d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9712316",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}