Pith Number

pith:RT5PYHLC

pith:2011:RT5PYHLCFNBDBL5B3EPADXL33K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Current assessment of the Red Rectangle band problem

C. M. Anderson, H. Van Winckel, L. S. Bernstein, M. L. Sitko, P. D. Michaels, R. G. Sharp, R. J. Glinski, T. W. Schmidt

arxiv:1102.5745 v1 · 2011-02-28 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RT5PYHLCFNBDBL5B3EPADXL33K}

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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	2026-05-18T02:03:02.178082Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8cfafc1d622b4230afa1d91e01dd7bdab9ad99b316fad03282f9aebc38579ce0

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.5745 · arxiv_version: 1102.5745v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.5745 · pith_short_12: RT5PYHLCFNBD · pith_short_16: RT5PYHLCFNBDBL5B · pith_short_8: RT5PYHLC

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/RT5PYHLCFNBDBL5B3EPADXL33K \
  | 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: 8cfafc1d622b4230afa1d91e01dd7bdab9ad99b316fad03282f9aebc38579ce0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cee5f47018f373590c2c16798fb0f60f35bce3bfa7e95b799c68ba293d78210b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-28T19:18:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "212b172cf52e17288200894bcc5639eb2df78967650d9f3f13303ed964613c35"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.5745",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}