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pith:U7ZMK7W7

pith:2017:U7ZMK7W7DFEEY6KIY54HOXKIBH
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BRITEning up the Be Phenomenon

A. Carciofi, A.F.J. Moffat, A. Mehner, A. Pigulski, A. Popowicz, Ch. Martayan, D. Baade, D. Panoglou, G.A. Wade, G. Handler, H. Pablo, K. Zwintz, R. Kuschnig, S.M. Rucinski, Th. Rivinius, W.W. Weiss

arxiv:1708.08413 v1 · 2017-08-28 · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{U7ZMK7W7DFEEY6KIY54HOXKIBH}

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First computed 2026-05-18T00:36:36.114102Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a7f2c57edf19484c7948c778775d4809c2e55b83771fa8efda5010bba801e568

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.08413 · arxiv_version: 1708.08413v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.08413 · pith_short_12: U7ZMK7W7DFEE · pith_short_16: U7ZMK7W7DFEEY6KI · pith_short_8: U7ZMK7W7
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U7ZMK7W7DFEEY6KIY54HOXKIBH \
  | 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: a7f2c57edf19484c7948c778775d4809c2e55b83771fa8efda5010bba801e568
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "212b4dff95118393565ee7916ead398934548b09ba07d213c0e6a17dbc9e6e95",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-28T16:48:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "643d15bdc3731004205f78687925fe2e232dd18464a6f296169c84b975a1a4da"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.08413",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}