Pith Number

pith:TP3KT2XV

pith:2025:TP3KT2XVJJCMHBH5X4CGDHHROA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Serpent Eating Its Own Tail: Dust Destruction in the Apep Colliding-Wind Nebula

Benjamin J. S. Pope, Joseph R. Callingham, Noel D. Richardson, Peter G. Tuthill, Ryan M. Lau, Ryan M. T. White, Shashank Dholakia, Yinuo Han

arxiv:2507.14610 v1 · 2025-07-19 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TP3KT2XVJJCMHBH5X4CGDHHROA}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T11:40:10.530768Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9bf6a9eaf54a44c384fdbf04619cf17036680242f86308a24ee439e627bdee39

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.14610 · arxiv_version: 2507.14610v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.14610 · pith_short_12: TP3KT2XVJJCM · pith_short_16: TP3KT2XVJJCMHBH5 · pith_short_8: TP3KT2XV

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/TP3KT2XVJJCMHBH5X4CGDHHROA \
  | 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: 9bf6a9eaf54a44c384fdbf04619cf17036680242f86308a24ee439e627bdee39

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "355c2e8a7d6624d7dc684060e44e0651b895413fe357020aab9f1ed29e80a6c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-19T13:12:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "077963d1ace814fe5a5dffd4b32a6c3f7961e44ca8cc5d33b5435bab070f8695"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.14610",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}