Pith Number

pith:V6YDFG4P

pith:2019:V6YDFG4PTWMPGDUK5IODVLLFHF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Photometric analyses of Saturn's small moons: Aegaeon, Methone and Pallene are dark; Helene and Calypso are bright

A.J. Verbiscer, C. Paranicas, E. Roussos, M.M. Hedman, P. Helfenstein, P. Thomas, R.O. Chancia

arxiv:1912.09192 v2 · 2019-12-19 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V6YDFG4PTWMPGDUK5IODVLLFHF}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T00:45:17.538828Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

afb0329b8f9d98f30e8aea1c3aad65394aad3b2f8facdfb63d6b427782da7a37

Aliases

arxiv: 1912.09192 · arxiv_version: 1912.09192v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1912.09192 · pith_short_12: V6YDFG4PTWMP · pith_short_16: V6YDFG4PTWMPGDUK · pith_short_8: V6YDFG4P

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/V6YDFG4PTWMPGDUK5IODVLLFHF \
  | 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: afb0329b8f9d98f30e8aea1c3aad65394aad3b2f8facdfb63d6b427782da7a37

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d33beddc8c1c172fc16af4d3c9e5551e5f15a648407f6ab327229c697259471",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2019-12-19T13:47:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5ef9d0a5baf9f4307720963b76c7daca7fdd54a4b8c9d8539358efa6d1ee1896"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1912.09192",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}