Pith Number

pith:M3LM4M5L

pith:2014:M3LM4M5LXWTDPL57JPOTP3QL6G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stellar Variability in the VVV Survey: An Update

1), 2), 2) ((1) Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, (2) Millennium Institute of Astrophysics), D. Minniti (1, I. Dekany (2, M. Catelan (1, M. Hempel (1

arxiv:1406.6727 v1 · 2014-06-25 · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M3LM4M5LXWTDPL57JPOTP3QL6G}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:48:56.052882Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66d6ce33abbda637afbf4bdd37ee0bf1ba8fda471c26226a8f1f5f933b4f65af

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.6727 · arxiv_version: 1406.6727v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.6727 · pith_short_12: M3LM4M5LXWTD · pith_short_16: M3LM4M5LXWTDPL57 · pith_short_8: M3LM4M5L

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/M3LM4M5LXWTDPL57JPOTP3QL6G \
  | 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: 66d6ce33abbda637afbf4bdd37ee0bf1ba8fda471c26226a8f1f5f933b4f65af

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "37620ff4f93dcbba46a00605f52e68a7e205f1d9be4e32a804fb7cde4bff783d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-25T22:33:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6a0a5847b8dcd4b47cd92ce6e618f96b051b00ff1f2affc01952fa2b09e84d6f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.6727",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}