Pith Number

pith:KXJ5HHKA

pith:2017:KXJ5HHKA64ZNRKDYRPCNZKSUBW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sample of Cataclysmic Variables from 400d X-ray Survey

A. N. Semena, A. V. Meshcheryakov, A. Yu. Tkachenko, M. G. Revnivtsev, M. N. Pavlinsky, M. V. Eselevitch, R. A. Burenin, S. N. Dodonov, V. S. Vorobyev

arxiv:1701.05240 v1 · 2017-01-17 · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KXJ5HHKA64ZNRKDYRPCNZKSUBW}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:52:30.445046Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

55d3d39d40f732d8a8788bc4dcaa540d86ff891feebb5dd6ee668fbbb3880193

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.05240 · arxiv_version: 1701.05240v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.05240 · pith_short_12: KXJ5HHKA64ZN · pith_short_16: KXJ5HHKA64ZNRKDY · pith_short_8: KXJ5HHKA

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/KXJ5HHKA64ZNRKDYRPCNZKSUBW \
  | 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: 55d3d39d40f732d8a8788bc4dcaa540d86ff891feebb5dd6ee668fbbb3880193

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9afc907a9f81aceea443135b9f9a859f4da61e136f167e070e60dabab2c8ff72",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-17T08:47:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fd32ea18d8e83c036695deec45b456da20e6a36ca5603ccc847cd47254b679c1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.05240",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}