Pith Number

pith:TAROARMT

pith:1999:TAROARMTP5X6VHJS42LTKDSVCO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Prompt Optical Emission from Gamma-ray Bursts

Andrew Pawl, Bill Priedhorsky, Brian Lee, Carl Akerlof, Don Casperson, Fillippo Frontera, Galen Gisler, Jack Hills, Jeff Bloch, Jim Wren, John Heise, John Szymanski, Kevin Hurley, Luigi Piro, Paul Butterworth, Richard Balsano, Robert Kehoe, Sandra Fletcher, Scott Barthelmy, Stuart Marshall, Tim McKay, Tom Cline

arxiv:astro-ph/9909219 v1 · 1999-09-14 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TAROARMTP5X6VHJS42LTKDSVCO}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T14:17:07.056250Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9822e045937f6fea9d32e697350e5513a0342f132830773d927d36f43b676a86

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9909219 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9909219v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9909219 · pith_short_12: TAROARMTP5X6 · pith_short_16: TAROARMTP5X6VHJS · pith_short_8: TAROARMT

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/TAROARMTP5X6VHJS42LTKDSVCO \
  | 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: 9822e045937f6fea9d32e697350e5513a0342f132830773d927d36f43b676a86

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09740b99903f7ee0131df0d0cd666c39861402bd5180d9b75100b168445c28c4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-09-14T00:15:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "28c7a1c3dffef9528aaaca4a352bbe44c70c6d5522e720a2f0208438aba82f6f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9909219",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}