Pith Number

pith:MTQAX2ZN

pith:2023:MTQAX2ZN724HQ7SP7SVTQHQEDA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Scientific Investigation of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Using Multimodal Ground-Based Observatories

Abigail White, Abraham Loeb, Alex Delacroix, Alex Gersznowicz, Amaya Moro-Mart\'in, Andrew Mead, Angelique Ahlstr\"om, Anthony Lux, Benjamin Horvath, Carol Cleland, Carson Ezell, Daniel Llusa Ribes, Eric Keto, Eric Masson, Ezra Kelderman, Forrest Schultz, Foteini Vervelidou, Frank Laukien, Gary J. Melnick, Gerald Thomas Tedesco, Javier Martin-Torres, John Joseph Tedesco, Kevin H. Knuth, Maria-Paz Zorzano, Mark Elowitz, Massimo Teodorani, Matthew Szenher, Michael G. Hercz, Michelle Tu, Mitch Randall, Natasha Donahue, Nicholas Gold, Paul Sail, Richard Cloete, Sarah Little, Sergei Dobroshinsky, Spencer Dockal, Wesley Andr\'es Watters

arxiv:2305.18566 v2 · 2023-05-29 · astro-ph.IM · eess.SP

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First computed	2026-07-05T06:16:02.832342Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

64e00beb2dfeb8787e4ffcab381e04183041fcdc11485f338c1d39b47b1d6636

Aliases

arxiv: 2305.18566 · arxiv_version: 2305.18566v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2305.18566 · pith_short_12: MTQAX2ZN724H · pith_short_16: MTQAX2ZN724HQ7SP · pith_short_8: MTQAX2ZN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MTQAX2ZN724HQ7SP7SVTQHQEDA \
  | 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: 64e00beb2dfeb8787e4ffcab381e04183041fcdc11485f338c1d39b47b1d6636

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "84a4a85664110a37da6d06501b9b8c1e3d20b65da0b2f748e3d98765f8c1ba8b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "eess.SP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2023-05-29T18:58:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6527149610c63b6ae002600712cc7872e8ef3b996ddf24f0da37db31e162088b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2305.18566",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}