Pith Number

pith:LYT526PM

pith:2005:LYT526PMWNMNB72MKQVOXVQEIU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Sources of Intergalactic Metals

B. Aracil, C. Pichon, D. Pogosyan, E. Scannapieco, H. M. P. Couchman, J. Bergeron, P. Petitjean, R. J. Thacker

arxiv:astro-ph/0503001 v2 · 2005-02-28 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LYT526PMWNMNB72MKQVOXVQEIU}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-04T16:50:54.812391Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5e27dd79ecb358d0ff4c542aebd604453a6bd6c14d4d9c1922995f1057ee21b4

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0503001 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0503001v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0503001 · pith_short_12: LYT526PMWNMN · pith_short_16: LYT526PMWNMNB72M · pith_short_8: LYT526PM

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/LYT526PMWNMNB72MKQVOXVQEIU \
  | 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: 5e27dd79ecb358d0ff4c542aebd604453a6bd6c14d4d9c1922995f1057ee21b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8a33be30f0da083909fcc4f8881bf2ff9168f5eb798e357276c2a0eb4ee3892a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-02-28T21:01:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c7c7a8bba5c95d73f1ffead34b98028e2e54786d7846a125b55f48f8929a8724"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0503001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}