Pith Number

pith:PCS5YVTN

pith:1997:PCS5YVTNX43WSDYGNWXKESRKNT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gamma-ray burst after-glow: Confirming the cosmological fireball model

Eli Waxman (IAS, Princeton)

arxiv:astro-ph/9705229 v2 · 1997-05-29 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PCS5YVTNX43WSDYGNWXKESRKNT}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T04:26:44.398380Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

78a5dc566dbf37690f066daea24a2a6cf5e4edfb0f2dcfe7450c616effd38874

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9705229 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9705229v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9705229 · pith_short_12: PCS5YVTNX43W · pith_short_16: PCS5YVTNX43WSDYG · pith_short_8: PCS5YVTN

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/PCS5YVTNX43WSDYGNWXKESRKNT \
  | 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: 78a5dc566dbf37690f066daea24a2a6cf5e4edfb0f2dcfe7450c616effd38874

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4809bdbb65d88a34ef3c5a084fe70550b605dc02028413f9f25ff3eb7e5dcc4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-05-29T03:16:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "487af80ab16a51b0f56a4d55d4204f8a7be0f4a25601be69ace68cb70b8d3a48"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9705229",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}