Pith Number

pith:MHKUU2VH

pith:2026:MHKUU2VHGEDIZEN7HDZEVJQAFV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VarWISE: Infrared Variability via NEOWISE Single Exposure Photometry

J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Matthew Paz, Rajiv Uttamchandani, Roc M. Cutri, Troy Raen

arxiv:2605.19059 v1 · 2026-05-18 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MHKUU2VHGEDIZEN7HDZEVJQAFV}

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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	2026-05-20T01:05:25.274557Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

61d54a6aa731068c91bf38f24aa6002d60b3661687a9fa5ce401e7a8f2c5f81d

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.19059 · arxiv_version: 2605.19059v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.19059 · pith_short_12: MHKUU2VHGEDI · pith_short_16: MHKUU2VHGEDIZEN7 · pith_short_8: MHKUU2VH

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/MHKUU2VHGEDIZEN7HDZEVJQAFV \
  | 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: 61d54a6aa731068c91bf38f24aa6002d60b3661687a9fa5ce401e7a8f2c5f81d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e28e7a39ecd9d7cf0811ad2f3acee84bd8ce70ea43665253bf9ecf0ba92fa33c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T19:29:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c7a609b3de93d685150f7377836dff6fbd072f1e4018013468b6545b55139bc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.19059",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}