Pith Number

pith:KUIWNI5P

pith:2012:KUIWNI5P4I26EJ7NNPGYUIMCXP

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WorldWide Telescope in Research and Education

Alberto Pepe, Alyssa Goodman, August Muench, Curtis Wong, Jonathan Fay, Patricia Udomprasert

arxiv:1201.1285 v1 · 2012-01-05 · astro-ph.IM · physics.ed-ph · physics.pop-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KUIWNI5P4I26EJ7NNPGYUIMCXP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:21:25.797460Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

551166a3afe235e227ed6bcd8a2182bbc1b23ae6c6cae9346e7dfed91b9aa8c8

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.1285 · arxiv_version: 1201.1285v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.1285 · pith_short_12: KUIWNI5P4I26 · pith_short_16: KUIWNI5P4I26EJ7N · pith_short_8: KUIWNI5P

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/KUIWNI5P4I26EJ7NNPGYUIMCXP \
  | 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: 551166a3afe235e227ed6bcd8a2182bbc1b23ae6c6cae9346e7dfed91b9aa8c8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "882d3aa07d7e6d9de093ef127a42c754eb5a9d85f31f44f61f4fbc9cb57535b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ed-ph",
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-05T16:39:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d69b7cb38b30255718aa705bf1c2338ccee2f824d5892486d6a57a1a05cac1c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.1285",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}