Pith Number

pith:PLFLO3T4

pith:2015:PLFLO3T4XCIT3NUC5HNRAPYS4E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Learning from FITS: Limitations in use in modern astronomical research

Adam Brazier, Alex Hagen, Anastasia Alexov, Brian Thomas, David S. Berry, David Shupe, Demitri Muna, Derek Homeier, Dominik Klaes, Erik Bray, Frossie Economou, G. Bruce Berriman, James Turner, Joe Masters, John Good, Jonathan Fay, Juande Santander-Vela, Kevin Edwards, Matthew Davie, Matthew W. Craig, Michael Droettboom, Miguel de Val-Borro, Norman Gray, Ole Streicher, Omar Laurino, Pat Norris, Paul Hartogh, Paul Hirst, Perry Greenfield, Reinhold Schaaf, Riccardo Campana, Russell O. Redman, Sergio Pascual, Slava Kitaeff, Thomas R. Marsh, Thomas Robitaille, Tim Jenness, Walter Landry

arxiv:1502.00996 v2 · 2015-02-03 · astro-ph.IM · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PLFLO3T4XCIT3NUC5HNRAPYS4E}

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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	2026-05-18T02:27:20.672214Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7acab76e7cb8913db682e9db103f12e12796149beef61bdc3b09a68be4cea979

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.00996 · arxiv_version: 1502.00996v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.00996 · pith_short_12: PLFLO3T4XCIT · pith_short_16: PLFLO3T4XCIT3NUC · pith_short_8: PLFLO3T4

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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/PLFLO3T4XCIT3NUC5HNRAPYS4E \
  | 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: 7acab76e7cb8913db682e9db103f12e12796149beef61bdc3b09a68be4cea979

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "588f369c7669a76e7155d526a5a52be5681832570e7dabbb2dc12cb9dd751ab0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-03T20:27:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cedbce90f56756c78960e2de0d17084ee54af1d108b2b3a12bf6dd3e2e240339"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.00996",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}