Pith Number

pith:VA75XZA5

pith:2017:VA75XZA5G5TMWOPA7ECJ2SZCWY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Measurement of the Cosmic Optical Background using the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager on New Horizons

Andrew R. Poppe, Asantha Cooray, Carey M. Lisse, Chi Nguyen, Michael Zemcov, Poppy Immel

arxiv:1704.02989 v1 · 2017-04-10 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VA75XZA5G5TMWOPA7ECJ2SZCWY}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:45:10.734799Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a83fdbe41d3766cb39e0f9049d4b22b63924d19943df0bae6a4f1b496f5622db

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.02989 · arxiv_version: 1704.02989v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.02989 · pith_short_12: VA75XZA5G5TM · pith_short_16: VA75XZA5G5TMWOPA · pith_short_8: VA75XZA5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VA75XZA5G5TMWOPA7ECJ2SZCWY \
  | 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: a83fdbe41d3766cb39e0f9049d4b22b63924d19943df0bae6a4f1b496f5622db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ddfc454baac35693be2172fb93b3673abfd6feb7f0b0c5751facccb0d112750a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "astro-ph.EP",
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-10T18:00:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7036bf818e93b71e5f16c6a57ef015700235836afca1e51bdb1da679a648b7c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.02989",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}