Pith Number

pith:LNR7NXGL

pith:1998:LNR7NXGLKA3UGDM6RVIHRPTFFR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Lensing and the luminosity of Gamma-ray bursts and their hosts

C. A. Scharf, K. C. Sahu

arxiv:astro-ph/9809008 v1 · 1998-09-01 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LNR7NXGLKA3UGDM6RVIHRPTFFR}

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:37.111591Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b63f6dccb5037430d9e8d5078be652c440287fc84fd14d97b3263bd6c4cdd8e

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9809008 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9809008v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9809008 · pith_short_12: LNR7NXGLKA3U · pith_short_16: LNR7NXGLKA3UGDM6 · pith_short_8: LNR7NXGL

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/LNR7NXGLKA3UGDM6RVIHRPTFFR \
  | 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: 5b63f6dccb5037430d9e8d5078be652c440287fc84fd14d97b3263bd6c4cdd8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "32e5859471dc13d570b66be9c7c8fc5a79787bf6318e491bcb8d9c4b42618e4b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-09-01T19:24:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42ec08e3ba61f76155fd255c37f25c5a8c1613a548b5df4a54cb9c1b6906e1c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9809008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}