Pith Number

pith:UQLSPTJR

pith:2015:UQLSPTJR4DV4VQ4DEVGAQDP6BN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Method for Establishing a Station-Keeping, Stratospheric Platform for Astronomical Research

Robert Fesen, Yorke Brown

arxiv:1508.06527 v1 · 2015-08-26 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UQLSPTJR4DV4VQ4DEVGAQDP6BN}

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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	2026-05-18T01:34:14.957934Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a41727cd31e0ebcac383254c080dfe0b571cc620086d2d2d7482f98d78d84766

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.06527 · arxiv_version: 1508.06527v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.06527 · pith_short_12: UQLSPTJR4DV4 · pith_short_16: UQLSPTJR4DV4VQ4D · pith_short_8: UQLSPTJR

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/UQLSPTJR4DV4VQ4DEVGAQDP6BN \
  | 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: a41727cd31e0ebcac383254c080dfe0b571cc620086d2d2d7482f98d78d84766

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "18c3a1e63b9ba7d29725cfd86d9a74e60aff3d150c37758b14a367ee3dcf07ae",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-26T15:10:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce2e3ceba72b723decc90a8de16cf3a3682f194544a746fbe0dc2ff8160f8414"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.06527",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}