Pith Number

pith:TAVK5Z5U

pith:2012:TAVK5Z5UEUYEEQRJFDLA7H6PSA

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Stellar Polarimetry: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?

Gregg Wade, Jennifer L. Hoffman, John C. Brown, Kenneth Nordsieck, Nicole St-Louis

arxiv:1205.2159 v1 · 2012-05-10 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{TAVK5Z5UEUYEEQRJFDLA7H6PSA}

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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	2026-05-18T03:55:56.892788Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

982aaee7b4253042422928d60f9fcf9009b145a9ae7d49f92c32e07f8bce8eb6

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.2159 · arxiv_version: 1205.2159v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.2159 · pith_short_12: TAVK5Z5UEUYE · pith_short_16: TAVK5Z5UEUYEEQRJ · pith_short_8: TAVK5Z5U

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TAVK5Z5UEUYEEQRJFDLA7H6PSA \
  | 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: 982aaee7b4253042422928d60f9fcf9009b145a9ae7d49f92c32e07f8bce8eb6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "60ee4f0ab0e759bd18c17d3fa9b552ad6c0fed7978c0b830fd7c5365c80126c0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-10T05:05:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a1bc64acaa015e34f8f6d6e59a3b74e4c5a6e05fa7bdcc5203ae699c6010b24"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.2159",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}