Pith Number

pith:LOHPHRWD

pith:2017:LOHPHRWDLASA5ZGCTDP3PYMHCK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Candidate Transit Event around Proxima Centauri

Andrew Monson, Caleb Canas, Gudmundur Stefansson, Paul Robertson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Yiting Li

arxiv:1712.04483 v1 · 2017-12-12 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LOHPHRWDLASA5ZGCTDP3PYMHCK}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:28:07.797823Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b8ef3c6c358240ee4c298dfb7e187129324333f6f10c8382dae53bf4cff4cb8

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.04483 · arxiv_version: 1712.04483v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.04483 · pith_short_12: LOHPHRWDLASA · pith_short_16: LOHPHRWDLASA5ZGC · pith_short_8: LOHPHRWD

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/LOHPHRWDLASA5ZGCTDP3PYMHCK \
  | 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: 5b8ef3c6c358240ee4c298dfb7e187129324333f6f10c8382dae53bf4cff4cb8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad1bf6eb033f4bd676fba4eb606c0dab7ffea83c0c68f755b6807685763101d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-12T19:44:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2e21c78981334047bd6c1d6693aba7446a13ee07a825d52e5316dd6e153303b7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.04483",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}