Pith Number

pith:NO5KGO4S

pith:2020:NO5KGO4S3G2XAMKFHLVURD62YZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

What is Known About the Polarization of Starlight in the Southern Hole

Brian Keating, Praneet Bhoj, Roman Gerasimov

arxiv:2006.15201 v2 · 2020-06-26 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NO5KGO4S3G2XAMKFHLVURD62YZ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T01:34:55.572229Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6bbaa33b92d9b57031453aeb488fdac6701f980eb5113c7d18da019b5ac53707

Aliases

arxiv: 2006.15201 · arxiv_version: 2006.15201v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2006.15201 · pith_short_12: NO5KGO4S3G2X · pith_short_16: NO5KGO4S3G2XAMKF · pith_short_8: NO5KGO4S

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NO5KGO4S3G2XAMKFHLVURD62YZ \
  | 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: 6bbaa33b92d9b57031453aeb488fdac6701f980eb5113c7d18da019b5ac53707

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b85921f7c28a9fdfa6382a77f6d572f8925be205bc66ecc64430fce5f8d843c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2020-06-26T20:26:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "423823d3b7d40c864ef70b12dfee9d82bf92349d6ba6d02107c08ea3b3df2942"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2006.15201",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}