Pith Number

pith:M523S6W4

pith:2017:M523S6W4HMP3UE6BNHGX6RRUVC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

GRB 170817A as a jet counterpart to gravitational wave trigger GW 170817

Gavin P Lamb, Shiho Kobayashi

arxiv:1710.05857 v4 · 2017-10-16 · astro-ph.HE · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M523S6W4HMP3UE6BNHGX6RRUVC}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:58.898388Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6775b97adc3b1fba13c169cd7f4634a8b47d16b76f29ae5045f6a803f44a5918

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.05857 · arxiv_version: 1710.05857v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.05857 · pith_short_12: M523S6W4HMP3 · pith_short_16: M523S6W4HMP3UE6B · pith_short_8: M523S6W4

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/M523S6W4HMP3UE6BNHGX6RRUVC \
  | 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: 6775b97adc3b1fba13c169cd7f4634a8b47d16b76f29ae5045f6a803f44a5918

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e3b4e6e710d0cb5b0a65f9f44e0ae3d6d03842d375e2dcee14423e59c39b72a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-16T16:58:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6dcc41e9e7bd05209760a310f15627045cc15122e9ffdf66918a7cee8307dc34"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.05857",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}