Pith Number

pith:RAKCXEDW

pith:2016:RAKCXEDW3X2OPJRCRPYPKNFJPX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Silicate Composition of the Interstellar Medium

Benjamin A. Sargent, Dan M. Watson, Ingrid Koch, Shane Fogerty, William Forrest

arxiv:1608.06987 v1 · 2016-08-24 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RAKCXEDW3X2OPJRCRPYPKNFJPX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:02:00.003866Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

88142b9076ddf4e7a6228bf0f534a97dd7dee186c1afff11239a8bf4a82abac9

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.06987 · arxiv_version: 1608.06987v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.06987 · pith_short_12: RAKCXEDW3X2O · pith_short_16: RAKCXEDW3X2OPJRC · pith_short_8: RAKCXEDW

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/RAKCXEDW3X2OPJRCRPYPKNFJPX \
  | 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: 88142b9076ddf4e7a6228bf0f534a97dd7dee186c1afff11239a8bf4a82abac9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7864443130140990791126f8a7e4f101cb7961ece06e1b1c29945b192f21e3c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-24T23:41:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "426edbca02b5172705b9a71e71d46e880cd1a443eb6a9e05a8028ef267f2d4fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.06987",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}