Pith Number

pith:RZLQQNBV

pith:2012:RZLQQNBV4XYH4VCMH2PQZT4I36

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Does a 'stochastic' background of gravitational waves exist in the pulsar timing band?

D. R. B. Yardley, G. Hobbs, J. S. B. Wyithe, M. J. Keith, R. M. Shannon, R. N. Manchester, V. Ravi

arxiv:1210.3854 v1 · 2012-10-14 · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

A practical theorem on gravitational-wave background statistics

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:53:55.535288Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e57083435e5f07e544c3e9f0ccf88df8fe6ca75561e244ec221c32f7f7a8abf

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.3854 · arxiv_version: 1210.3854v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.3854 · pith_short_12: RZLQQNBV4XYH · pith_short_16: RZLQQNBV4XYH4VCM · pith_short_8: RZLQQNBV

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RZLQQNBV4XYH4VCMH2PQZT4I36 \
  | 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: 8e57083435e5f07e544c3e9f0ccf88df8fe6ca75561e244ec221c32f7f7a8abf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8d4b1cababb6a8932541bedb8e82577dbf8d9e263298a0a0b4aae4e5884a8a71",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-14T23:06:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "967a794e428ddfcffd1df131f19e459235def27a3298e1ddf682721f2f9ec37d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.3854",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}