Pith Number

pith:OEQAV7DW

pith:2013:OEQAV7DWNFE2ZGUPDQ44HDCM5T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fossil imprint of a powerful flare at the Galactic Centre along the Magellanic Stream

Greg Madsen, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Phil Maloney, Ralph Sutherland

arxiv:1309.5455 v1 · 2013-09-21 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OEQAV7DWNFE2ZGUPDQ44HDCM5T}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:47:34.714279Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

71200afc766949ac9a8f1c39c38c4cecd9982c0f881dc30a380999dadd7c0cf2

Aliases

arxiv: 1309.5455 · arxiv_version: 1309.5455v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.5455 · pith_short_12: OEQAV7DWNFE2 · pith_short_16: OEQAV7DWNFE2ZGUP · pith_short_8: OEQAV7DW

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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/OEQAV7DWNFE2ZGUPDQ44HDCM5T \
  | 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: 71200afc766949ac9a8f1c39c38c4cecd9982c0f881dc30a380999dadd7c0cf2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d7dc1a878d281902dbc0bfd6fc68f5c6fdfc4939d5c4b4a4124997ca22374814",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2013-09-21T09:44:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a57e9b4ec5a64039835c674165f73c3e617355b1fb5499b22baa4a4a67b06d54"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1309.5455",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}