Pith Number

pith:U5LSQQUS

pith:2017:U5LSQQUSMONPGNWFRB5JTOZESO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Chandra Dust Scattering Halo of Galactic Center transient Swift J174540.7-290015

B. Mon, D. Haggard, F. Baganoff, G. Garmire, L. Corrales, M. Reynolds, N. Degenaar

arxiv:1703.07855 v1 · 2017-03-22 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U5LSQQUSMONPGNWFRB5JTOZESO}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:45:41.204688Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a757284292639af336c5887a99bb24938a1a09b5b63dc3029e132986369c970d

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.07855 · arxiv_version: 1703.07855v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07855 · pith_short_12: U5LSQQUSMONP · pith_short_16: U5LSQQUSMONPGNWF · pith_short_8: U5LSQQUS

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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/U5LSQQUSMONPGNWFRB5JTOZESO \
  | 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: a757284292639af336c5887a99bb24938a1a09b5b63dc3029e132986369c970d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23a19b5e5622357e027bb616df66a42e34061871aa30279815f6420ec51b6558",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-22T21:12:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ff4353cf5253124a200b14f874f9891ed25e97002b5a500cf8a0b9999c248a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07855",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}