Pith Number

pith:PY5KV2LT

pith:1997:PY5KV2LTVNCMFG3BTLVF5SBBUB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Anomalous Component of Galactic Emission

A. C. S. Readhead, E. M. Leitch, S. T. Myers, T. J. Pearson

arxiv:astro-ph/9705241 v1 · 1997-05-30 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PY5KV2LTVNCMFG3BTLVF5SBBUB}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:12:01.067330Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7e3aaae973ab44c29b619aea5ec821a0725c21fef8dc1b300505063620d4fd5a

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9705241 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9705241v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9705241 · pith_short_12: PY5KV2LTVNCM · pith_short_16: PY5KV2LTVNCMFG3B · pith_short_8: PY5KV2LT

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/PY5KV2LTVNCMFG3BTLVF5SBBUB \
  | 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: 7e3aaae973ab44c29b619aea5ec821a0725c21fef8dc1b300505063620d4fd5a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a72132966b3750f12d88bc185246538c35e249c3d85a7db94ce9259ca9737905",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-05-30T03:05:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "156725f1733e10ff8e625da1f3de0a451f14da6f705f1bacd8972dee30ab8e1a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9705241",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}