Pith Number

pith:LHSUG33Y

pith:2024:LHSUG33YEVRGOWEGEFHT6DB3M5

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A celestial reference frame derived from observations with the Very Long Baseline Interferometry Global Observing System

Christopher S. Jacobs, Hana Krasna, Matthias Schartner, Patrick Charlot

arxiv:2411.14956 v1 · 2024-11-22 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LHSUG33YEVRGOWEGEFHT6DB3M5}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:39:14.156718Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

59e5436f782562675886214f3f0c3b677432fe8036046d754dedd293e1be7221

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.14956 · arxiv_version: 2411.14956v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.14956 · pith_short_12: LHSUG33YEVRG · pith_short_16: LHSUG33YEVRGOWEG · pith_short_8: LHSUG33Y

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/LHSUG33YEVRGOWEGEFHT6DB3M5 \
  | 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: 59e5436f782562675886214f3f0c3b677432fe8036046d754dedd293e1be7221

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "98dcca8e7ac2abea25f678603ff542be7edb377eaa33cdeb68e496431128035e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-22T14:15:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fb2f610d7f81d99b9c6edc55b5a3d8069f824edce003fff5cc514c1963629d28"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2411.14956",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}