Pith Number

pith:L6SSJ5C5

pith:2020:L6SSJ5C5L4LHIGHW4KPW6AZZJR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Mid-infrared Flare in the Active Galaxy MCG-02-04-026: Dust Echo of a Nuclear Transient Event

Chenwei Yang, Ge Li, Hongyan Zhou, Liming Dou, Lin Yan, Luming Sun, Ning Jiang, Tinggui Wang, Xiang Pan, Zhenfeng Sheng, Zhihao Zhong

arxiv:2006.11963 v1 · 2020-06-22 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L6SSJ5C5L4LHIGHW4KPW6AZZJR}

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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	2026-07-05T01:26:19.536508Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5fa524f45d5f167418f6e29f6f03394c7767ad867393a0373d778d6618af6dfd

Aliases

arxiv: 2006.11963 · arxiv_version: 2006.11963v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2006.11963 · pith_short_12: L6SSJ5C5L4LH · pith_short_16: L6SSJ5C5L4LHIGHW · pith_short_8: L6SSJ5C5

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/L6SSJ5C5L4LHIGHW4KPW6AZZJR \
  | 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: 5fa524f45d5f167418f6e29f6f03394c7767ad867393a0373d778d6618af6dfd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9bf82362bd8fb77268eb0a3f5b3464d6583cb38ec3b3542eb393f61ce1460e08",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2020-06-22T01:30:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50eb0c41772ffe58ea2a899252d0ffec5a08d9043c13698f37cfefd6a0cf1890"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2006.11963",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}