Pith Number

pith:SM4GM5NJ

pith:2017:SM4GM5NJYHD6WHDIMRKFJIMJIZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Detection of a Coherent Magnetic Field in the Magellanic Bridge through Faraday Rotation

B. M. Gaensler, C. R. Purcell, J. F. Kaczmarek, J. Stevens, N. M. McClure-Griffiths

arxiv:1701.05962 v1 · 2017-01-21 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SM4GM5NJYHD6WHDIMRKFJIMJIZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:40.961864Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

93386675a9c1c7eb1c68645454a189464938f0c7c0182a6b1140379f918e2ca6

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.05962 · arxiv_version: 1701.05962v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.05962 · pith_short_12: SM4GM5NJYHD6 · pith_short_16: SM4GM5NJYHD6WHDI · pith_short_8: SM4GM5NJ

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/SM4GM5NJYHD6WHDIMRKFJIMJIZ \
  | 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: 93386675a9c1c7eb1c68645454a189464938f0c7c0182a6b1140379f918e2ca6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "24949a3d3ad42cdf9b76d4f98493bbaf9d0045d8f1345e3238eff862e620465c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-21T01:29:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "49ecebdc5f29fca3c54242052e3f56e15e1fbebb30465df0354929965ded76d9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.05962",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}