Pith Number

pith:QTLXFAGM

pith:1995:QTLXFAGMXAVX7PSN2SBCPGPUPQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Nova-like Variables

V.S. Dhillon

arxiv:astro-ph/9509156 v2 · 1995-10-01 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QTLXFAGMXAVX7PSN2SBCPGPUPQ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:21:50.065017Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

84d77280ccb82b7fbe4dd4822799f47c2c3b398b7617bd19066617e76ace5a7a

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9509156 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9509156v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9509156 · pith_short_12: QTLXFAGMXAVX · pith_short_16: QTLXFAGMXAVX7PSN · pith_short_8: QTLXFAGM

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/QTLXFAGMXAVX7PSN2SBCPGPUPQ \
  | 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: 84d77280ccb82b7fbe4dd4822799f47c2c3b398b7617bd19066617e76ace5a7a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7276bdf97d0342cf92b45b3880102f2fff87bb7b98fb5b172241514c06100352",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1995-10-01T15:41:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd8d9de9a96654502009e96b108508eb5123d9179235872a4b002737a1770e12"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9509156",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}