Pith Number

pith:LPC2VKOP

pith:2026:LPC2VKOPGSPXHTMYR6SPFWSUW7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The first hours and days of the 2021 explosion of the recurrent symbiotic nova RS Ophiuchii

Augustin Skopal, Francois Teyssier, Marek Wolf, Martin Vra\v{s}\v{t}\'ak, Miroslav \v{S}lechta, Mitsugu Fujii, Sergei Shugarov

arxiv:2606.13202 v1 · 2026-06-11 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LPC2VKOPGSPXHTMYR6SPFWSUW7}

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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	2026-06-12T01:09:46.550956Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5bc5aaa9cf349f73cd988fa4f2da54b7d13f6251a472b3056772e880d1b56bb1

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.13202 · arxiv_version: 2606.13202v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.13202 · pith_short_12: LPC2VKOPGSPX · pith_short_16: LPC2VKOPGSPXHTMY · pith_short_8: LPC2VKOP

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/LPC2VKOPGSPXHTMYR6SPFWSUW7 \
  | 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: 5bc5aaa9cf349f73cd988fa4f2da54b7d13f6251a472b3056772e880d1b56bb1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a4177c5666230443cf77a731c36d239611c7ffc7e103529101fcd76326032ab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-11T11:12:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d99034fa9019f331c4ae3d4f62ec8c5965598c9163105f01fbb3103b480966e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.13202",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}