Pith Number

pith:Q7H6KY32

pith:2006:Q7H6KY325YWOP7QFP6F32XYOEE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

SN 2006gy: Discovery of the most luminous supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star like Eta Carinae

Alexei V. Filippenko, Charles Hansen, Dave Pooley, J. Craig Wheeler, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Joshua S. Bloom, Nathan Smith, Robert Quimby, Ryan Chornock, Ryan J. Foley, Weidong Li

arxiv:astro-ph/0612617 v3 · 2006-12-21 · astro-ph

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2 papers in Pith

Neutron star-companion interaction in core collapse supernovae. Population synthesis based on detailed binary evolution models

On the Gamma-ray Efficiency of Superluminous Supernovae: Potential Detections and Population-Level Constraints

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:37:01.264561Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

87cfe5637aee2ce7fe057f8bbd5f0e21054ee682a367787db930c99e564f1ad4

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0612617 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0612617v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0612617 · pith_short_12: Q7H6KY325YWO · pith_short_16: Q7H6KY325YWOP7QF · pith_short_8: Q7H6KY32

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q7H6KY325YWOP7QFP6F32XYOEE \
  | 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: 87cfe5637aee2ce7fe057f8bbd5f0e21054ee682a367787db930c99e564f1ad4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3d7e149f71bae3b9f73942092687b2e13dddb7e5b4f71804f20cb411f17ade9c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-12-21T04:39:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d4261e4a86293a0186834c9e89ec909ab98c8b55348fba383bdd45c35761a26e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0612617",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}