Pith Number

pith:U77I5TKJ

pith:1998:U77I5TKJ36OYU4SVGJAY754YBK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Host Galaxy of the Gamma--Ray Burst 971214

A. N. Ramaprakash, D. A. Frail, D. J. Helfand, E. Costa, F. Frontera, J. Bahcall, J. Halpern, J. S. Bloom, K. L. Adelberger, L. Piro, M. Dickinson, M. Feroci, R. Goodrich, S. C. Odewahn, S. G. Djorgovski, S. R. Kulkarni

arxiv:astro-ph/9807212 v3 · 1998-07-21 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U77I5TKJ36OYU4SVGJAY754YBK}

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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	2026-07-04T16:06:52.014222Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a7fe8ecd49df9d8a725532418ff7980a8224c26845790d44c9447057e8259224

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9807212 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9807212v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9807212 · pith_short_12: U77I5TKJ36OY · pith_short_16: U77I5TKJ36OYU4SV · pith_short_8: U77I5TKJ

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/U77I5TKJ36OYU4SVGJAY754YBK \
  | 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: a7fe8ecd49df9d8a725532418ff7980a8224c26845790d44c9447057e8259224

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4cd31d9363314329ab9ee39eb2a1f6fdb92797a997d184818480dd12e7961516",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-21T21:06:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c3acd8430afc5a457657f41c752c56fc38b6e0614cdbb6d8ba7ea983ddd96d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9807212",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}