Pith Number

pith:NWNGI36I

pith:2020:NWNGI36I44FQO76CGG7L6YJV5Y

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Where are the Extrasolar Mercuries?

Alexandra E. Doyle, Beth Klein, Edward D. Young, Hilke E. Schlichting

arxiv:2008.05992 v1 · 2020-08-13 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NWNGI36I44FQO76CGG7L6YJV5Y}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T02:12:42.532531Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d9a646fc8e70b077fc231bebf6135ee256c95f57f142fcc06e8c927281a9c39

Aliases

arxiv: 2008.05992 · arxiv_version: 2008.05992v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.05992 · pith_short_12: NWNGI36I44FQ · pith_short_16: NWNGI36I44FQO76C · pith_short_8: NWNGI36I

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/NWNGI36I44FQO76CGG7L6YJV5Y \
  | 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: 6d9a646fc8e70b077fc231bebf6135ee256c95f57f142fcc06e8c927281a9c39

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3a31aa17f8c1bfc4429584d7872c6ed6a282b72b14aa164041ac3758b386f5a6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2020-08-13T16:09:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6072c11011c0652b6f446357320db1077048863c2f88cc4c5546487bf4b53e3f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2008.05992",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}