Pith Number

pith:OB52DHS7

pith:2018:OB52DHS7UMBAZ2XAUOYFIZW6GZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Catching VY Sculptoris in a low state

A. F. Pala, E. Mason, F. M. Walte, K. S. Long, L. Schmidtobreick, S. B. Howell, S. Points

arxiv:1806.00097 v1 · 2018-05-31 · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OB52DHS7UMBAZ2XAUOYFIZW6GZ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:05:30.941850Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

707ba19e5fa3020ceae0a3b05466de3678511424a7a68041eb1a2cef4dd51bcb

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.00097 · arxiv_version: 1806.00097v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.00097 · pith_short_12: OB52DHS7UMBA · pith_short_16: OB52DHS7UMBAZ2XA · pith_short_8: OB52DHS7

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/OB52DHS7UMBAZ2XAUOYFIZW6GZ \
  | 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: 707ba19e5fa3020ceae0a3b05466de3678511424a7a68041eb1a2cef4dd51bcb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "92dbe9d6e9d10165bbb62269a7143d147d626e6206fe69a34bb06903662a642f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-31T20:57:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87ce66356911d02bdb5548ae998fb4936d9ed57b8816d6dde136f7cddf120740"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.00097",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}