Pith Number

pith:MDWEHFY5

pith:2015:MDWEHFY5ZADT2YTQ2WJSP6K6TE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Most Luminous Supernova ASASSN-15lh: Signature of a Newborn Rapidly-Rotating Strange Quark Star

J. S. Wang, L. J. Wang, S. Q. Wang, Y. W. Yu, Z. G. Dai

arxiv:1508.07745 v3 · 2015-08-31 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MDWEHFY5ZADT2YTQ2WJSP6K6TE}

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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	2026-05-18T01:21:31.372867Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

60ec43971dc8073d6270d59327f95e9924336064f4e718d2186694ae8dee6de3

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.07745 · arxiv_version: 1508.07745v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.07745 · pith_short_12: MDWEHFY5ZADT · pith_short_16: MDWEHFY5ZADT2YTQ · pith_short_8: MDWEHFY5

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/MDWEHFY5ZADT2YTQ2WJSP6K6TE \
  | 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: 60ec43971dc8073d6270d59327f95e9924336064f4e718d2186694ae8dee6de3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6369eb771110490552576617e03c6e8c24c795449b5769aae5cb770495ec7dfe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-31T09:52:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "337f411e5e11f9fa6e845cbf0100d1154cfe13861f7bf6bf2285c802f2ef82e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.07745",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}