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Pith Number

pith:V2ON2VNE

pith:2008:V2ON2VNE5RFMVM3N2BXU7YT3GM
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A young, dusty, compact radio source within a Ly|*alpha*| halo

10), (10) ARI Liverpool), 2), (2) CAR Hertfordshire, (3) UT Austin, 4), (4) Gemini, (5) IGPP/LLNL, 6, (6) UC Davis, 7), (7) UC Merced, (8) IAC, (9) ROE, Amanda Bauer (3, Arturo Manchado (8), Daniel J.B. Smith (1, F. Eugenio Barrio (1), Gary J. Hill (3), Matt J. Jarvis (1, Ross J. McLure (9), Steve Croft (5, Steve Rawlings (1), Thomas A. Targett (9) ((1) University of Oxford

arxiv:0806.3688 v1 · 2008-06-23 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{V2ON2VNE5RFMVM3N2BXU7YT3GM}

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First computed 2026-05-18T02:15:51.218165Z
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Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae9cdd55a4ec4acab36dd06f4fe27b330e6c1dfc57cd30af3f5b6e21539ca292

Aliases

arxiv: 0806.3688 · arxiv_version: 0806.3688v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0806.3688 · pith_short_12: V2ON2VNE5RFM · pith_short_16: V2ON2VNE5RFMVM3N · pith_short_8: V2ON2VNE
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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/V2ON2VNE5RFMVM3N2BXU7YT3GM \
  | 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: ae9cdd55a4ec4acab36dd06f4fe27b330e6c1dfc57cd30af3f5b6e21539ca292
Canonical record JSON 
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b83144b5e8a3635736f1874e691aec1cbc8c2373418a0e5368f16298521210f9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-06-23T14:25:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c9c9978746b018eaa788422a31c76938b2cb2f0490e4dbfd73c2b0a2ea057b5b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0806.3688",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}