Pith Number

pith:OF5JENCM

pith:1996:OF5JENCMIPILCC5VKPCYBQMPGG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Jets and QSO Spectra

Beverley J. Wills, M. S. Brotherton (University of Texas at Austin)

arxiv:astro-ph/9605161 v1 · 1996-05-27 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OF5JENCMIPILCC5VKPCYBQMPGG}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:21.243767Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

717a92344c43d0b10bb553c580c18f31bada6e97c61677c8ae0664171ac17b90

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9605161 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9605161v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9605161 · pith_short_12: OF5JENCMIPIL · pith_short_16: OF5JENCMIPILCC5V · pith_short_8: OF5JENCM

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/OF5JENCMIPILCC5VKPCYBQMPGG \
  | 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: 717a92344c43d0b10bb553c580c18f31bada6e97c61677c8ae0664171ac17b90

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3d6c8e8001c9170c609e9ef71c83e218b031544f4f8290211f44fd709211e9a8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-05-27T06:01:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "037dc6cc9283351c108e4a0e879f6fa514295795edecd545e37a8f8ff5af4480"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9605161",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}