Pith Number

pith:OBBKFOV7

pith:1996:OBBKFOV7UEJXTVEVJUWCRAL5GP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Absolute Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Temperature at 10.7 GHz

(2) Princeton University), D. T. Wilkinson (2) ((1) University of Chicago, N. C. Jarosik (2), S. S. Meyer (1), S. T. Staggs (1)

arxiv:astro-ph/9609128 v1 · 1996-09-19 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{OBBKFOV7UEJXTVEVJUWCRAL5GP}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:07:40.792873Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7042a2babfa11379d4954d2c28817d33fe0228904966848add0d3f5d840b242a

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9609128 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9609128v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9609128 · pith_short_12: OBBKFOV7UEJX · pith_short_16: OBBKFOV7UEJXTVEV · pith_short_8: OBBKFOV7

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OBBKFOV7UEJXTVEVJUWCRAL5GP \
  | 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: 7042a2babfa11379d4954d2c28817d33fe0228904966848add0d3f5d840b242a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f501aa8f3deaec3f1343470811abc600d34ba348bb35f5b79a114762ecb2b0d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-19T01:35:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7e46203210520ced2fb44da3d6ab06aa8104a9c252f2dc2b118404e01109a775"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9609128",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}