Pith Number

pith:RHAPL6UO

pith:2012:RHAPL6UO5PSXK5HT4VKQGHO56M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey V. The peculiar B[e]-like supergiant, VFTS698, in 30 Doradus

C. J. Evans, D. J. Lennon, I. Soszy\'nski, J. S. Clark, J. S. Vink, M. Fraser, P. A. Crowther, P. L. Dufton, P. R. Dunstall, W. D. Taylor

arxiv:1201.6389 v2 · 2012-01-30 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RHAPL6UO5PSXK5HT4VKQGHO56M}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:37.836681Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

89c0f5fa8eebe57574f3e555031dddf3234548d4fda6d3d3108304f6fcaebffc

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.6389 · arxiv_version: 1201.6389v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.6389 · pith_short_12: RHAPL6UO5PSX · pith_short_16: RHAPL6UO5PSXK5HT · pith_short_8: RHAPL6UO

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/RHAPL6UO5PSXK5HT4VKQGHO56M \
  | 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: 89c0f5fa8eebe57574f3e555031dddf3234548d4fda6d3d3108304f6fcaebffc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b6e5ee7466996d2f67c6017b669bcf07b197f9f4aef6eb6ac8c97c6f9f4005e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-30T22:02:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c3f2d7a567f7a4d27a0f17ea363c43b93b03957bc159d4f111b1d616c9a0e389"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.6389",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}