Pith Number

pith:RPDOJQBZ

pith:2012:RPDOJQBZ6HW6ULQXQ7TO4CDFOI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Astronomy with Cutting-Edge ICT: From Transients in the Sky to Data over the Continents (India-US)

Ajit Kembhavi, Ashish Mahabal, Roy Williams, Sharmad Navelkar

arxiv:1201.1281 v1 · 2012-01-05 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RPDOJQBZ6HW6ULQXQ7TO4CDFOI}

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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	2026-05-18T04:05:05.588393Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8bc6e4c039f1edea2e1787e6ee086572025cf222b309d1b102a8f154efd3bc24

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.1281 · arxiv_version: 1201.1281v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.1281 · pith_short_12: RPDOJQBZ6HW6 · pith_short_16: RPDOJQBZ6HW6ULQX · pith_short_8: RPDOJQBZ

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/RPDOJQBZ6HW6ULQXQ7TO4CDFOI \
  | 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: 8bc6e4c039f1edea2e1787e6ee086572025cf222b309d1b102a8f154efd3bc24

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5166ab39184416cc5b3b1a354f73b8abb0b5ddd9f290045c8ce0beb7916740b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-05T20:54:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b6f9501bd178450ebc07617bf421c98d1b5c6d4bea58e6c5e39a9eb717f5a349"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.1281",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}