Pith Number

pith:S6NQZAYF

pith:2007:S6NQZAYFLEFBK22PUP6A7PGZ7Z

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

When Stars Collide

E. Glebbeek, O. R. Pols

arxiv:0710.1734 v1 · 2007-10-09 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S6NQZAYFLEFBK22PUP6A7PGZ7Z}

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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	2026-07-04T17:06:04.709422Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

979b0c8305590a156b4fa3fc0fbcd9fe4341b7dfc71506f23eadbe4af21d871d

Aliases

arxiv: 0710.1734 · arxiv_version: 0710.1734v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0710.1734 · pith_short_12: S6NQZAYFLEFB · pith_short_16: S6NQZAYFLEFBK22P · pith_short_8: S6NQZAYF

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/S6NQZAYFLEFBK22PUP6A7PGZ7Z \
  | 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: 979b0c8305590a156b4fa3fc0fbcd9fe4341b7dfc71506f23eadbe4af21d871d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a4398d3f18c8278a0d95ccd9358f2177c1fc066a88942f8ec76e9ad6299b7466",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2007-10-09T11:21:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "190ed861d8ca200cf6a2a4f84d3f5e3515226bfa3a729c0faa77dbfae449f2c1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0710.1734",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}