Pith Number

pith:VA4DNAHY

pith:2011:VA4DNAHY5NPEGRVRHZLPSHJHBE

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The Astrophysical Implications of Dust Formation During The Eruptions of Hot, Massive Stars

C.S. Kochanek (1) ((1) Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University)

arxiv:1109.2596 v1 · 2011-09-12 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VA4DNAHY5NPEGRVRHZLPSHJHBE}

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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	2026-05-18T02:00:34.094324Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8383680f8eb5e4346b13e56f91d270914254cb9ac422e50313bd177c9e5353d

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.2596 · arxiv_version: 1109.2596v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.2596 · pith_short_12: VA4DNAHY5NPE · pith_short_16: VA4DNAHY5NPEGRVR · pith_short_8: VA4DNAHY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VA4DNAHY5NPEGRVRHZLPSHJHBE \
  | 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: a8383680f8eb5e4346b13e56f91d270914254cb9ac422e50313bd177c9e5353d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "06ad115959b3dc5ba97187f9f6b5b2b2a800511cf7295bf7e6846ab52aaac70e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-12T20:00:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26fd26b7f6d4eddca9dcdd0746be1152f0797c34c6ca13c67f654eb41c4c2377"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.2596",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}