Pith Number

pith:UUQFB35D

pith:2014:UUQFB35D3AQEIQEQH2XNA3YY2T

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Builders Instead of Consumers: Training Astronomers in Instrumentation & Observation

Cynthia Froning, Hanshin Lee, Mike Montgomery, Sarah Tuttle

arxiv:1410.2856 v1 · 2014-10-07 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UUQFB35D3AQEIQEQH2XNA3YY2T}

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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	2026-05-18T02:40:36.987525Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a52050efa3d8204440903eaed06f18d4c498be1a6fb20eb7d01e4cd1e880aca9

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.2856 · arxiv_version: 1410.2856v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.2856 · pith_short_12: UUQFB35D3AQE · pith_short_16: UUQFB35D3AQEIQEQ · pith_short_8: UUQFB35D

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/UUQFB35D3AQEIQEQH2XNA3YY2T \
  | 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: a52050efa3d8204440903eaed06f18d4c498be1a6fb20eb7d01e4cd1e880aca9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14a14a21fa46a9f3ef1ce8d587218d061ad2234dc85954740742ce6f7079fa47",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-07T16:54:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab6054b254b7e5501ad1ad85b996b325eda947b8b5cb1c82fb5aca0dcca1e710"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.2856",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}