Pith Number

pith:MNZUM24I

pith:2017:MNZUM24IERGAELYEFSDU2CANBA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

PTF11mnb: the first analog of supernova 2005bf

A. Gal-Yam, C. Fremling, C. Tao, E. Karamehmetoglu, F. Taddia, G. Smadja, J. Sollerman, M. M. Kasliwal, O. Yaron, P. E. Nugent, R. M. Quimby, S. R. Kulkarni

arxiv:1709.08386 v1 · 2017-09-25 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MNZUM24IERGAELYEFSDU2CANBA}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:24:51.486398Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6373466b88244c022f042c874d080d08007ac820b176fdbeeeda0e2246263206

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.08386 · arxiv_version: 1709.08386v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.08386 · pith_short_12: MNZUM24IERGA · pith_short_16: MNZUM24IERGAELYE · pith_short_8: MNZUM24I

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/MNZUM24IERGAELYEFSDU2CANBA \
  | 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: 6373466b88244c022f042c874d080d08007ac820b176fdbeeeda0e2246263206

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "29c9d08821b66dcf67c3640ef823147bf8b6f578e97be799229996de4b6ee237",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-25T09:08:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "32d4c611e49dea7aa3e23ba17e7d2fa6238d99a0a13ee6a72a2de240e189361a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.08386",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}