Pith Number

pith:KV73NS6D

pith:2005:KV73NS6DG7EDYFKKB6N54M2AVO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Giant X-ray Flare of GRB 050502B: Evidence for Late-Time Internal Engine Activity

A. A. Wells, A. D. Falcone, A. Moretti, A. P. Beardmore, B. Zhang, C. Pagani, D. Grupe, D. Lazzati, D. N. Burrows, G. Chincarini, G. Cusumano, G. Tagliaferri, J. A. Kennea, J. A. Nousek, J. E. Hill, J. P. Osborne, K. L. Page, L. Angelini, M. Capalbi, M. Perri, M. R. Goad, N. Gehrels, O. Godet, P. Giommi, P. Meszaros, P. Romano, P. T. O'Brien, S. Campana, S. Kobayashi, V. La Parola, V. Mangano

arxiv:astro-ph/0512615 v1 · 2005-12-27 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KV73NS6DG7EDYFKKB6N54M2AVO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T17:23:35.879909Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

557fb6cbc337c83c154a0f9bde3340ab85edae31c89d0501656264ed5be2cc63

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0512615 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0512615v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0512615 · pith_short_12: KV73NS6DG7ED · pith_short_16: KV73NS6DG7EDYFKK · pith_short_8: KV73NS6D

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/KV73NS6DG7EDYFKKB6N54M2AVO \
  | 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: 557fb6cbc337c83c154a0f9bde3340ab85edae31c89d0501656264ed5be2cc63

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a334a4132977fe6678603e9989bdf545c066759c40c805d608af75c886dc7098",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-12-27T05:40:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ff3dc04549440c2c2850458d753729fcd444e04422de4ad4774ed2a11c724b25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0512615",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}