Pith Number

pith:Q2545QIL

pith:2018:Q2545QILZ32LKVJMQRUVAGMXQ3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Characterizing upward lightning with and without a terrestrial gamma-ray flash

D. M. Smith, D. Wang, G. S. Bowers, J. Ortberg, J. R. Dwyer, M. Kamogawa, M. Stock, T. Ushio

arxiv:1810.03853 v1 · 2018-10-09 · physics.ao-ph · astro-ph.HE · physics.space-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q2545QILZ32LKVJMQRUVAGMXQ3}

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:39.736130Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86bbcec10bcef4b5552c846950199786ccd853f9d31771c35e1c71cb30222c89

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.03853 · arxiv_version: 1810.03853v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.03853 · pith_short_12: Q2545QILZ32L · pith_short_16: Q2545QILZ32LKVJM · pith_short_8: Q2545QIL

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/Q2545QILZ32LKVJMQRUVAGMXQ3 \
  | 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: 86bbcec10bcef4b5552c846950199786ccd853f9d31771c35e1c71cb30222c89

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "011f8c2cb5057b7bc1ce202d1323a9f0ca9b46f17bb7ad5e6a2f7f95e132edf4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "physics.space-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ao-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-09T08:32:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1856cec657808e0dc71d3dfb4d2c1ac8e0dab9f552f09bdef77dc6194bd9a141"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.03853",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}