Pith Number

pith:MV2VRPEG

pith:1999:MV2VRPEGY3SJVXQXOUV5E5UVON

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The discovery of polarization in the afterglow of GRB 990510 with the ESO Very Large Telescope

C. Kouveliotou (USRA, E. Palazzi, E. Pian (TESRE), E. Rol (Univ. of Amsterdam), F. Frontera (TESRE, J. van Paradijs (Univ. of Amsterdam, L. Nicastro (IFCAI), L. Piro (IAS, NASA/MSFC), N. Masetti, P.M. Vreeswijk, P. Soffitta, R.A.M.J. Wijers (SUNY Stony Brook), R. Falomo (Padova), Roma), T. Giblin (UAH), T.J. Galama, UAH), Univ. of Ferrara)

arxiv:astro-ph/9906346 v1 · 1999-06-22 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{MV2VRPEGY3SJVXQXOUV5E5UVON}

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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	2026-07-04T16:11:20.693784Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

657558bc86c6e49ade17752bd27695737738d74fafb3aaf162594db61898e140

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9906346 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9906346v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9906346 · pith_short_12: MV2VRPEGY3SJ · pith_short_16: MV2VRPEGY3SJVXQX · pith_short_8: MV2VRPEG

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/MV2VRPEGY3SJVXQXOUV5E5UVON \
  | 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: 657558bc86c6e49ade17752bd27695737738d74fafb3aaf162594db61898e140

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bba9ece12b1e09084a34e4f67475bcbb1031ce29e3abd95cfdcac068739f0130",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-06-22T12:57:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c22b06ff353f06f02922910f9102a7cd341640befac832bbe725eea3de9530f4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9906346",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}