Pith Number

pith:MKE4QUDI

pith:2017:MKE4QUDI4EYODCNVFDM2Q45JKS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Extinction and the Dimming of KIC 8462852

C. M. Lisse, Franky Dubois, George Rieke, Grant Kennedy, Huan Y. A. Meng, Kate Su, Ludwig Logie, Mark Wyatt, Massimo Marengo, Michael Siegel, Nicolas Trueba, Sigfried Vanaverbeke, Steve Rau, Tabetha Boyajian

arxiv:1708.07556 v2 · 2017-08-24 · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MKE4QUDI4EYODCNVFDM2Q45JKS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:13.587812Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6289c85068e130e189b528d9a873a954b816244c228a16076b51dc7a3d99432d

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.07556 · arxiv_version: 1708.07556v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.07556 · pith_short_12: MKE4QUDI4EYO · pith_short_16: MKE4QUDI4EYODCNV · pith_short_8: MKE4QUDI

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/MKE4QUDI4EYODCNVFDM2Q45JKS \
  | 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: 6289c85068e130e189b528d9a873a954b816244c228a16076b51dc7a3d99432d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c9ab4c0c0c9603d0a61bf9efc79a76d61b631a95700f34d3a459599a5d67996f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-24T21:01:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e8db8c49f91449f8a1beaf3b9a11949415952ec1664a3ca3ceb8a7b01a926254"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.07556",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}