Pith Number

pith:TX6FC5ZT

pith:2016:TX6FC5ZT2HW4V4TEJCLPOMCXB4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Connecting VLBI and Gaia celestial reference frames

Zinovy Malkin

arxiv:1609.08069 v1 · 2016-09-26 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TX6FC5ZT2HW4V4TEJCLPOMCXB4}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:54.538184Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9dfc517733d1edcaf2644896f730570f135785966860edfa9455bb5e99db463c

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.08069 · arxiv_version: 1609.08069v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.08069 · pith_short_12: TX6FC5ZT2HW4 · pith_short_16: TX6FC5ZT2HW4V4TE · pith_short_8: TX6FC5ZT

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/TX6FC5ZT2HW4V4TEJCLPOMCXB4 \
  | 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: 9dfc517733d1edcaf2644896f730570f135785966860edfa9455bb5e99db463c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad25e3748c5289d74c736d69db3de22d1b7b3421c67d6f28024479dfa731ad0a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-26T16:49:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e809348ee342d42c4e34a62b516b38ec87724e28367b6886a688e10741cb4ba8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.08069",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}