Pith Number

pith:MPBENBA7

pith:2017:MPBENBA7CDTRE6SHOTNRNTJK3B

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The Presence of Dust and Ice Scattering in X-Ray Emissions from Comets

Bradford Snios, Jack Lichtman, Vasili Kharchenko

arxiv:1712.01808 v2 · 2017-12-05 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MPBENBA7CDTRE6SHOTNRNTJK3B}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:47.802626Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

63c246841f10e7127a4774db16cd2ad876bf7783563ec038f838fae8a3be5b9c

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.01808 · arxiv_version: 1712.01808v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.01808 · pith_short_12: MPBENBA7CDTR · pith_short_16: MPBENBA7CDTRE6SH · pith_short_8: MPBENBA7

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/MPBENBA7CDTRE6SHOTNRNTJK3B \
  | 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: 63c246841f10e7127a4774db16cd2ad876bf7783563ec038f838fae8a3be5b9c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d55f99ea81b4d53dfa9f86b72fe790138726a3d06b58f31c4c2a5c741191d0ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-05T18:36:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d3bc80dae5a49217e723fa02670b0c31807041d1fb82f42d858df9c20f3ce44d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.01808",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}