Pith Number

pith:M5WOW2TX

pith:2017:M5WOW2TX2PKWTHCAJMKHCNLPMH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Magnetic Flux Emergence and Decay Rates for Preceder and Follower Sunspots Observed with HMI

A. A. Norton, E. H. Jones, J. E. Leake, M. G. Linton

arxiv:1705.02053 v1 · 2017-05-05 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{M5WOW2TX2PKWTHCAJMKHCNLPMH}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:41:59.071615Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

676ceb6a77d3d5699c404b1471356f61ee096d06d721b2df219093f0e4fc8d39

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.02053 · arxiv_version: 1705.02053v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.02053 · pith_short_12: M5WOW2TX2PKW · pith_short_16: M5WOW2TX2PKWTHCA · pith_short_8: M5WOW2TX

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/M5WOW2TX2PKWTHCAJMKHCNLPMH \
  | 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: 676ceb6a77d3d5699c404b1471356f61ee096d06d721b2df219093f0e4fc8d39

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fade08dda2378fefec224781fcbafc8d75ccc13beb1b1b11d87f7101526556c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-05T00:51:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be0c0eb563407a74f8787812b9de841b0b06cfff4edb63cf816294a4c49ffb94"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.02053",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}