Pith Number

pith:MCLKNSZL

pith:1996:MCLKNSZLL2LVICUO4AFARTPQ6J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Expanding Relativistic Shells and Gamma-Ray Burst Temporal Structure

Claudine Madras, E. E. Fenimore, Sergei Nayakshin

arxiv:astro-ph/9607163 v1 · 1996-07-30 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{MCLKNSZLL2LVICUO4AFARTPQ6J}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:23:54.073755Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6096a6cb2b5e97540a8ee00a08cdf0f25b4f594d498953aa0318524e914d93df

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9607163 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9607163v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9607163 · pith_short_12: MCLKNSZLL2LV · pith_short_16: MCLKNSZLL2LVICUO · pith_short_8: MCLKNSZL

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/MCLKNSZLL2LVICUO4AFARTPQ6J \
  | 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: 6096a6cb2b5e97540a8ee00a08cdf0f25b4f594d498953aa0318524e914d93df

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c4ff05d8e026622264f84641d20eba190cff5a60cf61bdb91da7a0be7b01173",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-07-30T18:32:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "767e5fa0de41028e302a874691f70c0da2215eb7ec9f80e9f0aec29ae6eaee63"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9607163",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}