Pith Number

pith:SXNJYSKN

pith:2026:SXNJYSKNQRWNMILCQNAFEMASST

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Cherenkov light as a mechanism for light flashes seen by astronauts in space

Blahoslav Pastir\v{c}\'ak, Dominika \v{S}vecov\'a, Pavol Bob\'ik

arxiv:2608.11761 v1 · 2026-08-12 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SXNJYSKNQRWNMILCQNAFEMASST}

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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	2026-08-13T01:28:07.232934Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

95da9c494d846cd62162834052301294e7303d206d28271a57b63daadbd19d68

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.11761 · arxiv_version: 2608.11761v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.11761 · pith_short_12: SXNJYSKNQRWN · pith_short_16: SXNJYSKNQRWNMILC · pith_short_8: SXNJYSKN

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/SXNJYSKNQRWNMILCQNAFEMASST \
  | 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: 95da9c494d846cd62162834052301294e7303d206d28271a57b63daadbd19d68

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f02bc230ab0de651b6d22c4240c66fc6b6fba338218f42ae6294b1605fd939a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-12T07:57:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dc7e55355ce8ec8eaf6aa4f3bd6f2dbe5a5d59a58dcb90c59b6227078015d4fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.11761",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}