Pith Number

pith:U4PW6DIN

pith:2012:U4PW6DINLXJJN4ZJOEXCWHT32C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Minimum Variability Time Scales of Long and Short GRBs

A. Eskandarian, A. Shenoy, B. Cobb, D. C. Morris, E. Sonbas, G. A. MacLachlan, K. S. Dhuga, L. C. Maximon, T. N. Ukwatta, W. C. Parke

arxiv:1201.4431 v3 · 2012-01-21 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U4PW6DINLXJJN4ZJOEXCWHT32C}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:58:44.023865Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a71f6f0d0d5dd296f329712e2b1e7bd09bd28ffbb4a518b1dbe25952d2e69325

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.4431 · arxiv_version: 1201.4431v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.4431 · pith_short_12: U4PW6DINLXJJ · pith_short_16: U4PW6DINLXJJN4ZJ · pith_short_8: U4PW6DIN

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/U4PW6DINLXJJN4ZJOEXCWHT32C \
  | 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: a71f6f0d0d5dd296f329712e2b1e7bd09bd28ffbb4a518b1dbe25952d2e69325

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "60620ac8c9514e0d5bec7fbbacb058532cc7dd991d0a30b61bea54a0dbb2dd3e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-21T04:01:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "642d1f6908149a5a97d0287068f03746db531c4af636cc10467a6b35a8bf1bb0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.4431",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}