Pith Number

pith:KVOH5EGE

pith:2003:KVOH5EGEMTNBSD3WAXU6SRQDGX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Be-star rotation: how close to critical?

Ian D. Howarth, Richard H. D. Townsend, Stanley P. Owocki

arxiv:astro-ph/0312113 v2 · 2003-12-04 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KVOH5EGEMTNBSD3WAXU6SRQDGX}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:22:19.723294Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

555c7e90c464da190f7605e9e9460335c2532822779d9a415741a65c5e36a317

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0312113 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0312113v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0312113 · pith_short_12: KVOH5EGEMTNB · pith_short_16: KVOH5EGEMTNBSD3W · pith_short_8: KVOH5EGE

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/KVOH5EGEMTNBSD3WAXU6SRQDGX \
  | 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: 555c7e90c464da190f7605e9e9460335c2532822779d9a415741a65c5e36a317

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "101920a637819532429493122cb6da6ef768cf7c26c513074cf5e18bbe6df91a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-12-04T02:11:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1b6066e275bbb833a63054c2c5a14f4e5d40a5bb8a3a8febe4f888b0081b8967"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0312113",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}