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pith:LSVXD4MJ

pith:2018:LSVXD4MJOZYJWVJ7GEGD5XYMYR

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The Fast, Luminous Ultraviolet Transient AT2018cow: Extreme Supernova, or Disruption of a Star by an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole?

Alan M. Watson, Alexander S. Kutyrev, Andrew J. Drake, Anna Y. Q. Ho, Ariel Goobar, Ashish Mahabal, Avinash Singh, Brajesh Kumar, Brenna Mockler, Bryan Penprase, Carlos G. Rom\'an-Z\'u\~niga, Charlotte Ward, Chow-Choong Ngeow, Chris Ashall, Chris Copperwheat, Christoffer Fremling, Daniel A. Perley, David Bersier, Dmitry A. Duev, Elena Pian, Eleonora Troja, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Francesco Taddia, G. C. Anupama, Harsh Kumar, Jacob E. Jencson, James D. Neill, Jerrick Wee, Jesper Sollerman, J. Jes\'us Gonz\'alez, John Horst, Joshua S. Bloom, Katsuhiro L. Murata, Keiichi Maeda, Kirsty Taggart, Kishalay De, Lin Yan, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Marianne Heida, Masaomi Tanaka, Michael Richer, Michael W. Coughlin, Nadia Blagorodnova, Nathaniel R. Butler, Nobuyuki Kawai, Nozomu Tominaga, Paolo A. Mazzali, Quentin Socia, Robert Quimby, Rosa L. Becerra, Ryosuke Itoh, Samaporn Tinyanont, Sara Frederick, S. Bradley Cenko, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Shubham Srivastava, Suvi Gezari, Tanazza Khanam, Tiara Hung, Tom\'as Ahumada, Varun Bhalerao, William H. Lee, Yutaro Tachibana

arxiv:1808.00969 v4 · 2018-08-02 · astro-ph.HE

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Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:56:47.514500Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5cab71f18976709b553f310c3edf0cc44d41aa084686069135f690b6d125e185

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.00969 · arxiv_version: 1808.00969v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.00969 · pith_short_12: LSVXD4MJOZYJ · pith_short_16: LSVXD4MJOZYJWVJ7 · pith_short_8: LSVXD4MJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LSVXD4MJOZYJWVJ7GEGD5XYMYR \
  | 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: 5cab71f18976709b553f310c3edf0cc44d41aa084686069135f690b6d125e185

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4bb21893d9c8760696898c8f2b233cfe783e6fb088b3efaaf75331c654c98ee9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-02T18:00:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd56a96deea075e30d0f51e1a50cc1bff6a5bdfb2e4cf4acfa1de1365b3c404a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.00969",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}