Pith Number

pith:ODSEJMQG

pith:1997:ODSEJMQGIHU4Q6ZXQILLKVO2XC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The optical counterpart to gamma-ray burst GRB970228 observed using the Hubble Space Telescope

Charles A. Meegan (NASA/MSFC), Chryssa Kouveliotou (NASA/MSFC), F. Duccio Macchetto (STScI), Gerald J. Fishman (NASA/MSFC), Jan van Paradijs (U. Amsterdam & U. Alabama), Kailash C. Sahu (STScI), Larry Petro (STScI), Mario Livio (STScI), Paul J. Groot (U. Amsterdam), Titus Galama (U. Amsterdam)

arxiv:astro-ph/9705184 v2 · 1997-05-22 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ODSEJMQGIHU4Q6ZXQILLKVO2XC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:48.244098Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

70e444b20641e9c87b378216b555dab88fff12200147f9d2c3a40dd8a1c4b97e

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9705184 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9705184v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9705184 · pith_short_12: ODSEJMQGIHU4 · pith_short_16: ODSEJMQGIHU4Q6ZX · pith_short_8: ODSEJMQG

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/ODSEJMQGIHU4Q6ZXQILLKVO2XC \
  | 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: 70e444b20641e9c87b378216b555dab88fff12200147f9d2c3a40dd8a1c4b97e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2dd1edd23f0626bc0314c5678d8b1c6b811808dfb75a280e1db08806f0a506c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-05-22T21:35:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c967753630267f4aec3fe6bd6a8cf98c86483e8238c00953ec5d2f703e2da9b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9705184",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}