Pith Number

pith:RX4TDOFO

pith:2006:RX4TDOFOXMVUOQIL6OSMQOHIGW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

E-prints and Journal Articles in Astronomy: a Productive Co-existence

Alberto Accomazzi, Carolyn S. Grant, Donna Thompson, Edwin A. Henneken, Elizabeth Bohlen, Guenther Eichhorn, Michael J. Kurtz, Paul Ginsparg, Simeon Warner, Stephen S. Murray

arxiv:cs/0609126 v1 · 2006-09-22 · cs.DL · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RX4TDOFOXMVUOQIL6OSMQOHIGW}

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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	2026-07-04T15:40:49.029418Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8df931b8aebb2b47410bf3a4c838e8359921a473d39e86a658eceb5414e65ee0

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0609126 · arxiv_version: cs/0609126v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0609126 · pith_short_12: RX4TDOFOXMVU · pith_short_16: RX4TDOFOXMVUOQIL · pith_short_8: RX4TDOFO

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/RX4TDOFOXMVUOQIL6OSMQOHIGW \
  | 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: 8df931b8aebb2b47410bf3a4c838e8359921a473d39e86a658eceb5414e65ee0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a31169ebd7ccf229d07a65586b9361f75f7d573f5755dc99f45ec45e709b80f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2006-09-22T14:16:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12e0d30d20ef315bdd3f507413862e72a2f116066e71243f4496be6b24219a07"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0609126",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}