Pith Number

pith:QDWRFVE4

pith:2019:QDWRFVE4Z74V4W6IJTQIPNG6CM

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MKT J170456.2-482100: the first transient discovered by MeerKAT

10), (10) Department of Physics, (11) Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (12) Department of Physics at the George Washington University, 13), (13) Astronomy Physics, 14, (14) Department of Astronomy at the University of Cape Town, 15), (15) IAU Office of Astronomy for Development, (16) International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, (17) Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, 18, (18) National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 19), (19) Caltech, 20), (20) Southern African Large Telescope), (2) South African Astronomical Observatory, (3) Anton Pannekoek Institute, 4), (4) Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), (5) AIM CEA CNRS Universite Paris Diderot, 6, (6) Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy, 7), (7) Department of Physics, 8), (8) South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, 9), (9) Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, A. Horesh (11), A. J. van der Horst (12, A. Rowlinson (3, Astrophysics the University of Oxford, B. W. Stappers (1), D. A. H. Buckley (2), E. J. Kotze (2, E. Koerding (9), Electronics Rhodes University, E. Tremou (5), I. Heywood (7, I. McDonald (1), J. C. A. Miller-Jones (16), K .M. Rajwade (1), K. P. Mooley (17, L. N. Driessen (1), M. Caleb (1), P. A. Woudt (6), P. Groot (2, R. A. M. J. Wijers (3) ((1) Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, R. Armstrong (6, R. P. Fender (6, S. B. Potter (2), Statistics Institute of Sciences (APSIS), V. A. McBride (2

arxiv:1911.07713 v1 · 2019-11-18 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QDWRFVE4Z74V4W6IJTQIPNG6CM}

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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	2026-07-05T00:20:07.374045Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

80ed12d49ccff95e5bc84ce087b4de1336392a340731fe59829bda1fa5e2bed3

Aliases

arxiv: 1911.07713 · arxiv_version: 1911.07713v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1911.07713 · pith_short_12: QDWRFVE4Z74V · pith_short_16: QDWRFVE4Z74V4W6I · pith_short_8: QDWRFVE4

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/QDWRFVE4Z74V4W6IJTQIPNG6CM \
  | 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: 80ed12d49ccff95e5bc84ce087b4de1336392a340731fe59829bda1fa5e2bed3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7626627e1940fca839a5c965eef09630a98c40d4f436b8736e2db3cbe5bc8244",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-11-18T15:41:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5b9c5cce2945f88e005bf0ce41d69526325b2f4defd0498fecbdd887370c0956"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1911.07713",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}