Pith Number

pith:PY2JN4VE

pith:2010:PY2JN4VEJL4HQ2JUVRM3TE67P6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

High-angular resolution observations of the Pistol Star

Alex Lobel, Andrew Fox (ESO-Chile), Antoine Merand (ESO-Chile), Christophe Martayan (ESO-Chile, Dietrich Baade (ESO-HQ), Fabien Patru (ESO-Chile), Fabrice Martins (GRAAL), Fernando Selman (ESO-Chile), GEPI), Guillaume Montagnier (ESO-Chile), Hugues Sana, Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin (LAOG), Jean Zorec (IAP), Julien Girard (ESO-Chile), Ronny Blomme, Stan Stefl (ESO-Chile), Thierry Semaan (GEPI), Thomas Rivinius (ESO-Chile), Yves Fremat

arxiv:1010.3342 v1 · 2010-10-16 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PY2JN4VEJL4HQ2JUVRM3TE67P6}

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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	2026-05-18T02:05:04.214992Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e3496f2a44af8786934ac59b993df7f8336b54a91538c2346ed29e84cdc7f76

Aliases

arxiv: 1010.3342 · arxiv_version: 1010.3342v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1010.3342 · pith_short_12: PY2JN4VEJL4H · pith_short_16: PY2JN4VEJL4HQ2JU · pith_short_8: PY2JN4VE

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/PY2JN4VEJL4HQ2JUVRM3TE67P6 \
  | 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: 7e3496f2a44af8786934ac59b993df7f8336b54a91538c2346ed29e84cdc7f76

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "73925b6b58d9fd86c8f25e31155a155ef7fc93c0c9653c28edb6070184a6e953",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2010-10-16T12:26:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8985386cc5871a8df2f606e495e8f68245903fa6d34d84e26e4e9a41dfc620e0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1010.3342",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}