Pith Number

pith:RQY7BYNM

pith:2018:RQY7BYNMCUOYQUB3UYLPKYLMZ4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

CTA 102 in exceptionally high state during 2016-17

Kiran S Baliyan, Navpreet Kaur

arxiv:1805.04692 v1 · 2018-05-12 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RQY7BYNMCUOYQUB3UYLPKYLMZ4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:31.169768Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c31f0e1ac151d88503ba616f5616ccf316caad4afc4a967c97555f25ad1c4f3

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.04692 · arxiv_version: 1805.04692v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.04692 · pith_short_12: RQY7BYNMCUOY · pith_short_16: RQY7BYNMCUOYQUB3 · pith_short_8: RQY7BYNM

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/RQY7BYNMCUOYQUB3UYLPKYLMZ4 \
  | 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: 8c31f0e1ac151d88503ba616f5616ccf316caad4afc4a967c97555f25ad1c4f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e4054e4d687298dc10fecc3780a74faa5f38901094a07e5031a9f71897afb2f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-12T10:04:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "05e135ce8d4210338d733012d5516d698b062289aea588d85d365b9aface781b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.04692",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}