Pith Number

pith:MVG2XQSO

pith:2017:MVG2XQSOPPLHEHWS7VYUM4RDTV

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Dissecting the active galactic nucleus in Circinus -- I. Peculiar mid-IR morphology explained by a dusty hollow cone

Daniel Asmus, Konrad R. W. Tristram, Marko Stalevski

arxiv:1708.07838 v2 · 2017-08-25 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MVG2XQSOPPLHEHWS7VYUM4RDTV}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:36:27.694980Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

654dabc24e7bd6721ed2fd714672239d7e255d9a6f853f7faf15ef87aad2739d

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.07838 · arxiv_version: 1708.07838v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.07838 · pith_short_12: MVG2XQSOPPLH · pith_short_16: MVG2XQSOPPLHEHWS · pith_short_8: MVG2XQSO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MVG2XQSOPPLHEHWS7VYUM4RDTV \
  | 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: 654dabc24e7bd6721ed2fd714672239d7e255d9a6f853f7faf15ef87aad2739d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b1af247c66d10c53ec2ae1927fecc1c405242dc4a68ef25dc44988f16ea279e6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-25T18:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "93e11b8610f7892aad76eac0bfa82e068ad0ad9feb119f78ebcbe6c26e36703f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.07838",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}