Pith Number

pith:MXCM3KDC

pith:2020:MXCM3KDCVEWZPOXNVGNF3PD23F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

New Horizons Observations of the Cosmic Optical Background

Andrew F. Cheng, Anne. J. Verbiscer, A. R. Poppe, Bonnie J. Buratti, Carey M. Lisse, Catherine B. Olkin, Daniel D. Durda, Daniel T. Britt, Dennis C. Reuter, Harold A. Weaver, Ivan R. Linscott, Jeffrey M. Moore, J. I. Nu\~nez, Joel W. Parker, John R. Spencer, Kelsi N. Singer, Leslie A. Young, Marc Postman, Marc W. Buie, Mark R. Showalter, Mihaly Horanyi J.J. Kavelaars, Paul Schenk, Richard P. Binzel, S. Alan Stern, Simon B. Porter, Stuart J. Robbins, Tod R. Lauer, William B. McKinnon, W.M. Grundy

arxiv:2011.03052 v2 · 2020-11-05 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MXCM3KDCVEWZPOXNVGNF3PD23F}

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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	2026-07-05T02:07:50.943426Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65c4cda862a92d97baeda99a5dbc7ad94ea696f4453869b4dc67ec911541b389

Aliases

arxiv: 2011.03052 · arxiv_version: 2011.03052v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2011.03052 · pith_short_12: MXCM3KDCVEWZ · pith_short_16: MXCM3KDCVEWZPOXN · pith_short_8: MXCM3KDC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MXCM3KDCVEWZPOXNVGNF3PD23F \
  | 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: 65c4cda862a92d97baeda99a5dbc7ad94ea696f4453869b4dc67ec911541b389

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cd2577f9c29bbcadb82ec5da5fb8e7e8458c661d1826b6091e0b600da63ce833",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2020-11-05T19:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e41b133e42033b98364da2f46947cb2a4a92ade5ff0786478025827a22786784"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2011.03052",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}