Pith Number

pith:QMUGPLGH

pith:2016:QMUGPLGHQ46MBJGMPCCKNWLOP6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Refined Shock Velocity of the X-Ray Filaments in the RCW 86 Northeast Rim

Brian J. Williams, Daniel Castro, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Laura A. Lopez, Patrick O. Slane, Randall K. Smith, Robert Petre, Satoru Katsuda

arxiv:1602.08551 v1 · 2016-02-27 · astro-ph.HE

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\pithnumber{QMUGPLGHQ46MBJGMPCCKNWLOP6}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:18:37.113424Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

832867acc7873cc0a4cc7884a6d96e7fb3664c8c86f7217fe6e40db379771418

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.08551 · arxiv_version: 1602.08551v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.08551 · pith_short_12: QMUGPLGHQ46M · pith_short_16: QMUGPLGHQ46MBJGM · pith_short_8: QMUGPLGH

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QMUGPLGHQ46MBJGMPCCKNWLOP6 \
  | 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: 832867acc7873cc0a4cc7884a6d96e7fb3664c8c86f7217fe6e40db379771418

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c1dbe68633ed9018ef177f44afe97abd018ebe1f9fbe604e22b3d00d1e461ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-27T04:52:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1bb0c080e026ecbe92063380be6cb7bcb700c29ebca7748dd9c1958290bb379b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.08551",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}