Pith Number

pith:MZTTYV6M

pith:2010:MZTTYV6MHEPQEKKO7QDIG3M2XE

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Luminous Blue Variable eruptions and related transients: Diversity of progenitors and outburst properties

Alexei V. Filippenko, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Mo Ganeshalingam, Nathan Smith, Weidong Li

arxiv:1010.3718 v2 · 2010-10-18 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.HE

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\pithnumber{MZTTYV6MHEPQEKKO7QDIG3M2XE}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:05:01.522818Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

66673c57cc391f02294efc06836d9ab9363c5e49767c0a2cdd187a4351f33136

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.3718 · arxiv_version: 1010.3718v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.3718 · pith_short_12: MZTTYV6MHEPQ · pith_short_16: MZTTYV6MHEPQEKKO · pith_short_8: MZTTYV6M

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MZTTYV6MHEPQEKKO7QDIG3M2XE \
  | 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: 66673c57cc391f02294efc06836d9ab9363c5e49767c0a2cdd187a4351f33136

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "704d23e8aa0d9d1de8a2c5d4b2ed7fc0bfc417d8658addf740b1a887dba48e6f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-18T20:25:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e9838967ba8f27a79bccce9a9ec8087815afcf05a7ba2d6766d4419a68143c4a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.3718",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}