Pith Number

pith:TEGQVDJK

pith:2009:TEGQVDJK4T74V6WW3AK7QKNEYC

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The Debris Disk of Vega: A Steady-State Collisional Cascade, Naturally

Alexander V. Krivov, Sebastian M\"uller, Torsten L\"ohne

arxiv:0912.1190 v1 · 2009-12-07 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{TEGQVDJK4T74V6WW3AK7QKNEYC}

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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	2026-05-18T02:33:57.370500Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

990d0a8d2ae4ffcafad6d815f829a4c0a34b6766b956f786d2a009d230d38cc7

Aliases

arxiv: 0912.1190 · arxiv_version: 0912.1190v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0912.1190 · pith_short_12: TEGQVDJK4T74 · pith_short_16: TEGQVDJK4T74V6WW · pith_short_8: TEGQVDJK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TEGQVDJK4T74V6WW3AK7QKNEYC \
  | 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: 990d0a8d2ae4ffcafad6d815f829a4c0a34b6766b956f786d2a009d230d38cc7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "116eff8aa38bcbe79797d0c29af04d1aa49b55a47974ae1b02c86e3d542b46b5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2009-12-07T12:02:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4252f6342c16848d2521a1450b403137fdc9613e521035d1217cbd37412eb09b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0912.1190",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}