Pith Number

pith:PFGBAZ5E

pith:2017:PFGBAZ5EVAMF4WSLP5NZ4ZBIOF

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One year of monitoring the Vela pulsar using a Phased Array Feed

George Hobbs, John E. Reynolds, John M. Sarkissian, Lisa Harvey-Smith

arxiv:1705.08355 v1 · 2017-05-22 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{PFGBAZ5EVAMF4WSLP5NZ4ZBIOF}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:40:03.437448Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

794c1067a4a8185e5a4b7f5b9e64287150c18fcbff15b67e855da89e783a4c10

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.08355 · arxiv_version: 1705.08355v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.08355 · pith_short_12: PFGBAZ5EVAMF · pith_short_16: PFGBAZ5EVAMF4WSL · pith_short_8: PFGBAZ5E

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PFGBAZ5EVAMF4WSLP5NZ4ZBIOF \
  | 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: 794c1067a4a8185e5a4b7f5b9e64287150c18fcbff15b67e855da89e783a4c10

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a4013cad5c25e6c018ca4e6738d09f6eb3f9acff045d0f25f2ce85ece7a75e62",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-22T04:07:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "61ef3f3c21c8d7e480b9c8b0ba5819db1855bf1fa467924d5d9106017f4fbc04"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.08355",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}