Pith Number

pith:R3R5N2I4

pith:2012:R3R5N2I4GSR5Y24HIVBX6R7URN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An independent distance estimate to CW Leo

B. M. Swinyard, B. Sibthorpe, D. Ladjal, F. Kerschbaum, G. Olofsson, H. L. Gomez, J. A. D. L. Blommaert, J. Cernicharo, J. Yates, L. Decin, M. A. T. Groenewegen, M. J. Barlow, M. Matsuura, P. C. Hargrave, T. L. Lim, T. Ueta

arxiv:1206.5982 v1 · 2012-06-26 · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R3R5N2I4GSR5Y24HIVBX6R7URN}

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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	2026-05-18T01:56:41.680151Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8ee3d6e91c34a3dc6b8745437f47f48b7c685dd7c71c2a0551cf2cc0dec80ec7

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.5982 · arxiv_version: 1206.5982v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.5982 · pith_short_12: R3R5N2I4GSR5 · pith_short_16: R3R5N2I4GSR5Y24H · pith_short_8: R3R5N2I4

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/R3R5N2I4GSR5Y24HIVBX6R7URN \
  | 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: 8ee3d6e91c34a3dc6b8745437f47f48b7c685dd7c71c2a0551cf2cc0dec80ec7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "90caac531b61530cade58ecbba76662c471fc85625592736727c87071bcbba9c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-26T13:26:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9dca2312edd8e259269266fb1b068b18962fd7586a98b0d2cca3fd937a46bf7c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.5982",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}