Pith Number

pith:OPVSE7QK

pith:2016:OPVSE7QK3QQJRLK625GQQWEDFX

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Discovery of transient infrared emission from dust heated by stellar tidal disruption flares

Alexander J. Mendez, Julian H. Krolik, Sjoert van Velzen, Varoujan Gorjian

arxiv:1605.04304 v2 · 2016-05-13 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OPVSE7QK3QQJRLK625GQQWEDFX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:12.969925Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

73eb227e0adc2098ad5ed74d0858832df130f3e191b8cffea3079208543d8ded

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.04304 · arxiv_version: 1605.04304v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.04304 · pith_short_12: OPVSE7QK3QQJ · pith_short_16: OPVSE7QK3QQJRLK6 · pith_short_8: OPVSE7QK

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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/OPVSE7QK3QQJRLK625GQQWEDFX \
  | 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: 73eb227e0adc2098ad5ed74d0858832df130f3e191b8cffea3079208543d8ded

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bddbf93cedd23e186b89118023ca6f82a528d63fd9f60164298335c3627941ba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-13T19:59:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82eed0ab84899a2d75ad6c03595b736c9ef7b1f00c5b9a852de192a43472e4c4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.04304",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}