Pith Number

pith:RBH3WHIC

pith:1997:RBH3WHICDO3ELAUXWHJ7UMCP4S

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How to Tell a Jet from a Balloon: A Proposed Test for Beaming in Gamma Ray Bursts

James E. Rhoads (Kitt Peak National Observatory)

arxiv:astro-ph/9705163 v2 · 1997-05-21 · astro-ph

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:03:01.207254Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

884fbb1d021bb6458297b1d3fa304fe4bb97232124877df60edeca831fbd8d24

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9705163 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9705163v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9705163 · pith_short_12: RBH3WHICDO3E · pith_short_16: RBH3WHICDO3ELAUX · pith_short_8: RBH3WHIC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RBH3WHICDO3ELAUXWHJ7UMCP4S \
  | 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: 884fbb1d021bb6458297b1d3fa304fe4bb97232124877df60edeca831fbd8d24

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f3620196ee33de4d87b0ae05068b6ee13e8a35677c2f89f01c5f020861f9a42a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-05-21T08:49:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "262decc28984a2e1bdea9a70813f449e49e4488d0954d62d6da813da907f5691"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9705163",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}