Pith Number

pith:OTRS4BVB

pith:2019:OTRS4BVBK4IZL4WNUTJ6RCGD4L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A new kind of radio transient: ERBs

Ali Frolop, Douglas Scott

arxiv:1903.12412 v1 · 2019-03-29 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OTRS4BVBK4IZL4WNUTJ6RCGD4L}

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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	2026-05-17T23:49:54.109379Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

74e32e06a1571195f2cda4d3e888c3e2e0ab3b9e1b580b95e3b06b631dd93fb6

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.12412 · arxiv_version: 1903.12412v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.12412 · pith_short_12: OTRS4BVBK4IZ · pith_short_16: OTRS4BVBK4IZL4WN · pith_short_8: OTRS4BVB

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/OTRS4BVBK4IZL4WNUTJ6RCGD4L \
  | 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: 74e32e06a1571195f2cda4d3e888c3e2e0ab3b9e1b580b95e3b06b631dd93fb6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d3ca9be97cb3c490a2b8a2be832de4155fc34ab9d0945a78079f411bf404870",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-29T09:24:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17e6e545c890309c89dc0a532f735afb48bb98e64c53007766262b398e18d7b3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.12412",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}