Pith Number

pith:QAEYWY6R

pith:1996:QAEYWY6RCRLXS3FQCBHY2Z5F6X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Direct Imaging of the CMB from Space

Andrew E. Lange, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Charles R. Lawrence, Douglas Scott, & John E. Ruhl, Ken Ganga, Krzysztof M. Gorski, Mark Dragovan, Martin White, Michael A. Janssen, Michael D. Seiffert, Paul L. Richards, Peter Meinhold, Philip M. Lubin, Samuel Gulkis, Steven M. Levin, Todd Gaier

arxiv:astro-ph/9602009 v2 · 1996-02-02 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QAEYWY6RCRLXS3FQCBHY2Z5F6X}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-04T15:07:37.561285Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

80098b63d11457796cb0104f8d67a5f5def509986237bce6ece01b69bb679dda

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9602009 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9602009v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9602009 · pith_short_12: QAEYWY6RCRLX · pith_short_16: QAEYWY6RCRLXS3FQ · pith_short_8: QAEYWY6R

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/QAEYWY6RCRLXS3FQCBHY2Z5F6X \
  | 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: 80098b63d11457796cb0104f8d67a5f5def509986237bce6ece01b69bb679dda

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e9d95ec76c1a7faffe050d2c1a465a8fc661f34ceb79b201fd712be49489e568",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-02-02T06:36:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "83a994749ea07c5370bceef9f3e0d1813bd3a559a7682c0ed3fc838b46414a3a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9602009",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}