Pith Number

pith:MNTSSPB5

pith:2008:MNTSSPB5JGVOAJCOSAMUDLDD2C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distance to VY Canis Majoris with VERA

Akiharu Nakagawa, Chung Sik Oh, Hideyuki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Imai, Katsuhisa Sato, Katsunori M. Shibata, Kayoko Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Yamashita, Kenta Maruyama, Kenzaburo Iwadate, Makoto Matsui, Mareki Honma, Masachika Kijima, Mayumi Sato, Mi Kyoung Kim, Miyuki Thushima, Naoko Matsumoto, Noriyuki Kawaguchi, Osamu Kameya, Ryuichi Kamohara, Satoshi Sakai, Seiji Kameno, Seiji Manabe, Seisuke Kuji, Takaaki Jike, Takeshi Bushimata, Takeshi Miyaji, Takumi Nagayama, Tetsuo Sasao, Tomoaki Oyama, Tomoharu Kurayama, Tomoya Hirota, Toshihiro Omodaka, Yoon Kyung Choi, Yoshiaki Tamura, Yukitoshi Kan-ya

arxiv:0808.0641 v1 · 2008-08-05 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MNTSSPB5JGVOAJCOSAMUDLDD2C}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T02:15:43.957630Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6367293c3d49aae0244e901941ac63d0910d7b44bda0985a11d5ed02a72099c4

Aliases

arxiv: 0808.0641 · arxiv_version: 0808.0641v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.0641 · pith_short_12: MNTSSPB5JGVO · pith_short_16: MNTSSPB5JGVOAJCO · pith_short_8: MNTSSPB5

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/MNTSSPB5JGVOAJCOSAMUDLDD2C \
  | 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: 6367293c3d49aae0244e901941ac63d0910d7b44bda0985a11d5ed02a72099c4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2cf1b7b58d81a719f4f8c097616fec8462d44fdbb9bb69f523799095dc739a80",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-05T15:09:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1daf9b3c0a2f6eb2d53e4e642084e846565cb0e00844216fd8e9b79da37b6643"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.0641",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}