Pith Number

pith:REMPVBNX

pith:2017:REMPVBNX3PWPP3DH754PW3YVD3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Dusty Silhouette Jet HH 1019 in the Carina Nebula

John Bally, Megan M. Kiminki, Megan Reiter, Nathan Smith

arxiv:1702.03893 v1 · 2017-02-13 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:47.987354Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8918fa85b7dbecf7ec67ff78fb6f151ecce4c80f9b121767c4fe259065d7fc3d

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.03893 · arxiv_version: 1702.03893v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.03893 · pith_short_12: REMPVBNX3PWP · pith_short_16: REMPVBNX3PWPP3DH · pith_short_8: REMPVBNX

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/REMPVBNX3PWPP3DH754PW3YVD3 \
  | 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: 8918fa85b7dbecf7ec67ff78fb6f151ecce4c80f9b121767c4fe259065d7fc3d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a2f6df82f773b8722135c2a51a42b52c0bfeeb6655ebe3c6e60fbf2f32502a33",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-13T17:39:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9d20ffadf5c35b85cd89db10b3d3e7b1ee49545eb6c16c087c3af37ab5154129"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.03893",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}