Pith Number

pith:Q3H62L2D

pith:2016:Q3H62L2DC43MAAQ6HKKEXFACL5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

MN48: a new Galactic bona fide luminous blue variable revealed by Spitzer and SALT

A.Y. Kniazev, L.N. Berdnikov, V.V. Gvaramadze

arxiv:1604.03942 v1 · 2016-04-13 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q3H62L2DC43MAAQ6HKKEXFACL5}

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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	2026-05-18T01:16:12.791213Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86cfed2f431736c0021e3a944b94025f7f54cef7316ef1ca7b9fb0db1f215035

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.03942 · arxiv_version: 1604.03942v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.03942 · pith_short_12: Q3H62L2DC43M · pith_short_16: Q3H62L2DC43MAAQ6 · pith_short_8: Q3H62L2D

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/Q3H62L2DC43MAAQ6HKKEXFACL5 \
  | 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: 86cfed2f431736c0021e3a944b94025f7f54cef7316ef1ca7b9fb0db1f215035

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ef7c7b53a773608fed4db71ddd822fb2fb110eae9adc63332c2edbcf7892285b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-13T20:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "698f4a372acbc59f7f1a87a74956e4ce81d401d0f989e3d6f5e4cca56502667f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.03942",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}