Pith Number

pith:MEL5QUEG

pith:2023:MEL5QUEG4SYKXPOYX64QLT5QYO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Surface Flux Transport on the Sun

Anthony R. Yeates, Jie Jiang, Kristof Petrovay, Mark C.M. Cheung, Yi-Ming Wang

arxiv:2303.01209 v2 · 2023-03-02 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MEL5QUEG4SYKXPOYX64QLT5QYO}

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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	2026-07-05T06:15:25.438104Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6117d85086e4b0abbdd8bfb905cfb0c3b6c971af32fea1043c884f9b40a003c1

Aliases

arxiv: 2303.01209 · arxiv_version: 2303.01209v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.01209 · pith_short_12: MEL5QUEG4SYK · pith_short_16: MEL5QUEG4SYKXPOY · pith_short_8: MEL5QUEG

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/MEL5QUEG4SYKXPOYX64QLT5QYO \
  | 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: 6117d85086e4b0abbdd8bfb905cfb0c3b6c971af32fea1043c884f9b40a003c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b07f0a1baf1a896fca59c0350d602dfe02785ea31434330725313cc067bb6f2b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2023-03-02T12:49:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f4f1553860efe6f0afdc515a0b40e94fc0d235e23d2df21c399767f6293f2387"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2303.01209",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}