Pith Number

pith:LH4573HE

pith:2006:LH4573HES2RNSNKULM2UYC7A5V

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

First Terrestrial Soft X-ray Auroral Observation by The Chandra X-ray Observatory

Albert E. Metzger, Anil Bhardwaj, G. Randall Gladstone, J. Hunter Waite, Jr., Nikolai Ostgaard, Ronald F. Elsner, Shen-Wu Chang, Tariq Majeed, Thomas E. Cravens

arxiv:astro-ph/0612261 v1 · 2006-12-11 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{LH4573HES2RNSNKULM2UYC7A5V}

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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	2026-05-18T03:47:42.967026Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

59f9dfece496a2d935545b354c0be0ed7c548547899ba8de34a1c1c058f07efb

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0612261 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0612261v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0612261 · pith_short_12: LH4573HES2RN · pith_short_16: LH4573HES2RNSNKU · pith_short_8: LH4573HE

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LH4573HES2RNSNKULM2UYC7A5V \
  | 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: 59f9dfece496a2d935545b354c0be0ed7c548547899ba8de34a1c1c058f07efb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97d93be04915755a3faa4e7346e13b68fea2c2474910ac40b1f63406c547e823",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-12-11T06:26:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f7b5c246d317f1e8ca95de0bb726a110afab1c83756aa7b0eb7bb1b71e2f2f2b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0612261",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}