Pith Number

pith:MA2UKWVK

pith:2017:MA2UKWVK2HSPUZ6BVZCSVXJDHJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

bRing: An observatory dedicated to monitoring the $\beta$ Pictoris b Hill sphere transit

B.B.D. Lomberg, E.E. Mamajek, G.J.J. Talens, I. Laginja, J.I. Bailey III, M.A. Kenworthy, M.J. Ireland, P. Dorval, R. Stuik, S.M. Crawford, S. N. Mellon

arxiv:1709.01325 v1 · 2017-09-05 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MA2UKWVK2HSPUZ6BVZCSVXJDHJ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:41.574980Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6035455aaad1e4fa67c1ae452add233a520c6adda72d884688e908a319e83c13

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.01325 · arxiv_version: 1709.01325v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.01325 · pith_short_12: MA2UKWVK2HSP · pith_short_16: MA2UKWVK2HSPUZ6B · pith_short_8: MA2UKWVK

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/MA2UKWVK2HSPUZ6BVZCSVXJDHJ \
  | 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: 6035455aaad1e4fa67c1ae452add233a520c6adda72d884688e908a319e83c13

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1cf76fdecd726b8c2cd09f80c1a0bcdcb99089b0e3ef6976d95d6bae0ad823ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-05T10:40:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e53ff10e782b4a463895ceccc935ea4e1357abc68b7cfa5c187bf5232ff575a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.01325",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}