Pith Number

pith:Q5HDUBYZ

pith:2016:Q5HDUBYZT2IX2F7BAITJIN6EPX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A search for an optical counterpart to the gravitational wave event GW151226

A. Gal-Yam, A. Heinze, A. Jerkstrand, A. Rest, A. S. B. Schultz, A. Sherstyuk, B. Gibson, B. Mueller, B. Stalder, C. Frohmaier, C. Inserra, C. Waters, C. W. Stubbs, D. E. Wright, D. R. Young, E. A. Magnier, E. Kankare, G. Dimitriadis, H. Flewelling, I. Mandel, J. Harmanen, J. Sollerman, J. Tonry, K. C. Chambers, K. Maguire, K. W. Smith, L. Denneau, M. Coughlin, M. Della Valle, M. Dennefeld, M. E. Huber, M. Fraser, M. Kromer, M. Willman, N. Primak, R. E. Firth, R. Kotak, R. Wainscoat, S. J. Smartt, T.-W. Chen

arxiv:1606.04795 v2 · 2016-06-15 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{Q5HDUBYZT2IX2F7BAITJIN6EPX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:16.080622Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

874e3a07199e917d17e102269437c47dc4856796a096867deddfb796df8fc7ee

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.04795 · arxiv_version: 1606.04795v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.04795 · pith_short_12: Q5HDUBYZT2IX · pith_short_16: Q5HDUBYZT2IX2F7B · pith_short_8: Q5HDUBYZ

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/Q5HDUBYZT2IX2F7BAITJIN6EPX \
  | 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: 874e3a07199e917d17e102269437c47dc4856796a096867deddfb796df8fc7ee

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "55f321e242c73f10b5d586bd7e10c9990ecc1c21267627819879d3f5aba8eca2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-15T14:54:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d8a3300ff223526b977d641706f47d1b9d8b3b8d7b807de2aa254d45946c431"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.04795",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}