Pith Number

pith:SDB4U3L5

pith:1996:SDB4U3L5ID4IKFKPXU6LKCXI7I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Search for molecular absorption in the tori of active galactic nuclei

(2) Observatoire de Paris, (3) Onsala Space Observatory, Australia, F. Combes (2), France, M. Drinkwater (1), Sweden), T. Wiklind (3) ((1) Anglo-Australian Observatory

arxiv:astro-ph/9603086 v1 · 1996-03-16 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SDB4U3L5ID4IKFKPXU6LKCXI7I}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T01:07:41.072170Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

90c3ca6d7d40f885154fbd3cb50ae8fa085b43eab21b4f9aadd5a8bc9e850697

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9603086 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9603086v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9603086 · pith_short_12: SDB4U3L5ID4I · pith_short_16: SDB4U3L5ID4IKFKP · pith_short_8: SDB4U3L5

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/SDB4U3L5ID4IKFKPXU6LKCXI7I \
  | 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: 90c3ca6d7d40f885154fbd3cb50ae8fa085b43eab21b4f9aadd5a8bc9e850697

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f3ab9ba5ea5b230369584afa9017cfff8e88230bb8964722f9a4964ece6a3f1e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-03-16T17:12:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c391b3fdd5be9a33eacee437518b9f0df88b99a3f1a27f0c2881845bee6d7027"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9603086",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}