Pith Number

pith:USSBZAQL

pith:2017:USSBZAQL3EGMT7QKGOPQU7JT7B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Searching for Extragalactic Sources in the VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea Survey

2), (2) Observatorio Astron\'omico de C\'ordoba, (3) Departamento de F\'isica y Astronom\'ia, 4), (4) Direcci\'on de Investigaci\'on y Desarrollo, (5) Instituto de F\'isica y Astronom\'ia, 6), (6) Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, 7, (7) Departamento de Ciencias F\'isicas, 8) ((1) IATE-CONICET, (8) Vatican Observatory, Argentina, Chile, Dante Minniti (6, Facultad de Ciencias, ITALY.), Jos\'e L. Nilo Castell\'on (3, Juan C. Beam\'in (5, Laura D. Baravalle (1), M. Victoria Alonso (1, U. Andr\'es Bello, U. de Valpara\'iso, U. La Serena

arxiv:1712.00041 v1 · 2017-11-30 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{USSBZAQL3EGMT7QKGOPQU7JT7B}

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:23.484360Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a4a41c820bd90cc9fe0a339f0a7d33f843be901c95fd063e16de379ad52bf325

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.00041 · arxiv_version: 1712.00041v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.00041 · pith_short_12: USSBZAQL3EGM · pith_short_16: USSBZAQL3EGMT7QK · pith_short_8: USSBZAQL

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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/USSBZAQL3EGMT7QKGOPQU7JT7B \
  | 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: a4a41c820bd90cc9fe0a339f0a7d33f843be901c95fd063e16de379ad52bf325

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b1f63021ae52d30b552a0a910bdbe6b1aec271205f6d396c301f4d36742204a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-30T19:26:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3a79bfa2b6a2112e94d04aba0aa7ea352b43cae764d490778bc8473769f24de5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.00041",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}