Pith Number

pith:RWVZIVNJ

pith:2008:RWVZIVNJNLVEW4DJTFSMX3RUWE

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A shrinking Compact Symmetric Object: J11584+2450?

C. D. Fassnacht, G. B. Taylor, J. F. Helmboldt, S. E. Tremblay, T. J. Pearson

arxiv:0806.3955 v1 · 2008-06-24 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RWVZIVNJNLVEW4DJTFSMX3RUWE}

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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	2026-07-04T17:11:24.651017Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8dab9455a96aea4b70699964cbee34b1006845946a8e0b7bf8f5cfe154b3da7c

Aliases

arxiv: 0806.3955 · arxiv_version: 0806.3955v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0806.3955 · pith_short_12: RWVZIVNJNLVE · pith_short_16: RWVZIVNJNLVEW4DJ · pith_short_8: RWVZIVNJ

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/RWVZIVNJNLVEW4DJTFSMX3RUWE \
  | 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: 8dab9455a96aea4b70699964cbee34b1006845946a8e0b7bf8f5cfe154b3da7c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "919b83c3110758622c2cafb9b22e49e6f2c2232e05948bb9704c5ce0ddd4feaf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-06-24T19:22:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "063ed57d6151bbf84ab69411881a3a93658f7d8ef808c4fe03c60831504ab5da"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0806.3955",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}