Pith Number

pith:OGC4XI56

pith:2018:OGC4XI566RJIUMYPK2R4ACG4SR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Complete Census of Luminous Stellar Variability on Day to Decade Timescales

Aaron Dotter, Andrew E. Dolphin, Benjamin D. Johnson, Charlie Conroy, Daniel R. Weisz, Jay Strader, Jeremiah W. Murphy, Phillip Cargile, Pieter van Dokkum

arxiv:1804.05860 v2 · 2018-04-16 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OGC4XI566RJIUMYPK2R4ACG4SR}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:03:49.137021Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7185cba3bef4528a330f56a3c008dc94523d4360f2cc923892e256fe8326db26

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.05860 · arxiv_version: 1804.05860v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.05860 · pith_short_12: OGC4XI566RJI · pith_short_16: OGC4XI566RJIUMYP · pith_short_8: OGC4XI56

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/OGC4XI566RJIUMYPK2R4ACG4SR \
  | 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: 7185cba3bef4528a330f56a3c008dc94523d4360f2cc923892e256fe8326db26

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "26eff46366bb2956884428769b9009dbdecf0b98ac84d9272c044469c7ece42d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-16T18:00:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f8a17143fef69d47a47c661c543872cb2f9ee75009c815653fd5b3f6c7217129"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.05860",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}