Pith Number

pith:U5P6NZJJ

pith:2014:U5P6NZJJNG6VP2EBJ27JACZCY5

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Discovery of a Thorne-Zytkow object candidate in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Anna N. Zytkow, Emily M. Levesque, Nidia Morrell, Philip Massey

arxiv:1406.0001 v1 · 2014-05-30 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U5P6NZJJNG6VP2EBJ27JACZCY5}

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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	2026-05-18T01:43:04.476956Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a75fe6e52969bd57e8814ebe900b22c75832a7cd8b10860f3cad556510ece76b

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.0001 · arxiv_version: 1406.0001v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.0001 · pith_short_12: U5P6NZJJNG6V · pith_short_16: U5P6NZJJNG6VP2EB · pith_short_8: U5P6NZJJ

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/U5P6NZJJNG6VP2EBJ27JACZCY5 \
  | 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: a75fe6e52969bd57e8814ebe900b22c75832a7cd8b10860f3cad556510ece76b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a9b100c99399421c7f36b83994cf57a906f232cb1ecffcd09744fd00df54d87",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-30T20:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8c4499c36cac14dcccaf7014fde087b658375e1b8b7335405eedd5d172d7429"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.0001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}