Pith Number

pith:TUEJVCSN

pith:2019:TUEJVCSN74JK4RGGWMHAGR2CRM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery of an intermediate-luminosity red transient in M51 and its likely dust-obscured, infrared-variable progenitor

1), (10) University of California Los Angeles, (11) University of Washington, (12) Lost Gold Observatory, (13) Caltech Optical Observatories, (14) University of Maryland, (15) Weizmann Institute of Science, (16) University of Minnesota, (17) Humboldt-Universit\"at zu Berlin, (18) Stellar Winds Observatory, 19) ((1) California Institute of Technology, (19) University of California Santa Cruz, (20) Prince George Astronomical Observatory, (21) Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, (22) Northern Virginia Astronomy Club, (23) Desert Celestial Observatory, (24) University of Arizona, (25) Tokyo Institute of Technology), (2) Pennsylvania State University, 3), (3) Space Telescope Science Institute, (4) Caltech/IPAC, (5) University of Colorado Boulder, (6) Radboud University, (7) Stockholm University, (8) Northwestern University, (9) University of Alaska Anchorage, Adam A. Miller (8), Andrew Fruchter (3), Anna Y. Q. Ho (1), Avishay Gal-Yam (15), Ben Rusholme (4), Christoffer Fremling (1), Cristina Barbarino (7), David Hale (13), David Rubin (3), Eric C. Bellm (11), Erin K. S. Hicks (9), Forrest Sims (23), Frank J. Masci (4), George Helou (4), Howard E. Bond (2, Igor Andreoni (1), Jacob E. Jencson (1), James D. Neill (1), Jesper Sollerman (7), John Bally (5), Kevin Quin (22), Kishalay De (1), Maayane T. Soumagnac (15), Malhar R. Kendurkar (20), Mansi M. Kasliwal (1), Mario Juri\'c (11), Mark Hanson (18), Matteo Giomi (17), Matthew A. Malkan (10), Matthew J. Graham (1), Matthew J. Hankins (1), Michael Feeney (13), Nadejda Blagorodnova (6), Nathan Smith (24), Reed L. Riddle (13), Richard Dekany (13), Richard Walters (13), Robert Buchheim (12), Robert D. Gehrz (16), Robert E. Williams (3, Roger M. Smith (13), Ryan M. Lau (21), Samaporn Tinyanont (1), Sara Frederick (14), Schuyler D. van Dyk (4), Scott M. Adams (1), S. R. Kulkarni (1), Stanley Watson (18), T. Hung (19), Wayne Green (5), Yuhan Yao (1), Yutaro Tachibana (25

arxiv:1904.07857 v2 · 2019-04-15 · astro-ph.SR

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First computed	2026-07-04T23:50:17.463305Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9d089a8a4dff12ae44c6b30e0347428b1fa8bf24b5afb90f41213aa61b67f74e

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.07857 · arxiv_version: 1904.07857v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.07857 · pith_short_12: TUEJVCSN74JK · pith_short_16: TUEJVCSN74JK4RGG · pith_short_8: TUEJVCSN

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TUEJVCSN74JK4RGGWMHAGR2CRM \
  | 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: 9d089a8a4dff12ae44c6b30e0347428b1fa8bf24b5afb90f41213aa61b67f74e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "98aefa0639d51ca642799087dde8212217b09514204ab973df9f05a523a68e4d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-15T18:00:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85dd4745dbef1b99fa93d1047b46b26a4c5816de539a6259293673b387d132d6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.07857",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}