Pith Number

pith:RZ4MDBSK

pith:2009:RZ4MDBSKLVSDRJKMZMKSRPLSPS

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Magnetic Field-Decay-Induced Electron Captures: a Strong Heat Source in Magnetar Crusts

David L. Kaplan (KITP), Randall L. Cooper

arxiv:0910.2466 v2 · 2009-10-14 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR · nucl-ex · nucl-th

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\pithnumber{RZ4MDBSKLVSDRJKMZMKSRPLSPS}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:11:23.960597Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e78c1864a5d6438a54ccb1528bd727caeb0eef45cf719f75beb1008939bbcc2

Aliases

arxiv: 0910.2466 · arxiv_version: 0910.2466v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0910.2466 · pith_short_12: RZ4MDBSKLVSD · pith_short_16: RZ4MDBSKLVSDRJKM · pith_short_8: RZ4MDBSK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RZ4MDBSKLVSDRJKMZMKSRPLSPS \
  | 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: 8e78c1864a5d6438a54ccb1528bd727caeb0eef45cf719f75beb1008939bbcc2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "184b4f7b277a3f8ee4ae43306883f76887e0daa4477c95528ef6856e865e57d3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR",
      "nucl-ex",
      "nucl-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2009-10-14T18:23:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a80a1cd7b54198cf2858edc8965f7bc2beecba0a580f6218fb6c06a4d6a3d8ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0910.2466",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}