Pith Number

pith:QR32ZKFU

pith:2017:QR32ZKFUT3MUCCH6SAQWVMYFI5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery of the subsecond linearly polarized spikes of synchrotron origin in the UV Ceti giant optical flare

A.Stepanov, G.Beskin, S.Karpov, V.Plokhotnichenko, Yu.Tsap

arxiv:1702.06660 v1 · 2017-02-22 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.HE

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\pithnumber{QR32ZKFUT3MUCCH6SAQWVMYFI5}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:50:13.041838Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8477aca8b49ed94108fe90216ab30547678e6e1d5f0af07e610a15ddf89b8f7b

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.06660 · arxiv_version: 1702.06660v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.06660 · pith_short_12: QR32ZKFUT3MU · pith_short_16: QR32ZKFUT3MUCCH6 · pith_short_8: QR32ZKFU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QR32ZKFUT3MUCCH6SAQWVMYFI5 \
  | 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: 8477aca8b49ed94108fe90216ab30547678e6e1d5f0af07e610a15ddf89b8f7b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b2726308379e4226628ddee963a9af8f990b5749df06f0e9bceb5c599dc43c41",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-22T03:06:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a60e73e61377c74f1b99e7f02f39dbfa5a8629e866e65fb48670ee09ed85ec64"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.06660",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}