Pith Number

pith:VAGVEQH2

pith:2016:VAGVEQH2IHANFAPIPBMYJT5BPF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Time-resolved optical/near-IR polarimetry of V404 Cyg during its 2015 outburst

D.M. Russell (NYU Abu Dhabi), K. Mooley (Oxford), R.P. Fender (Oxford) C. Rumsey (Cavendish Lab), S. Covino (INAF-OAB), T. Shahbaz (IAC/ULL)

arxiv:1608.06947 v1 · 2016-08-24 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{VAGVEQH2IHANFAPIPBMYJT5BPF}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:49:16.011773Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a80d5240fa41c0d281e8785984cfa17975213fb95027c641c5e658b09acba05f

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.06947 · arxiv_version: 1608.06947v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.06947 · pith_short_12: VAGVEQH2IHAN · pith_short_16: VAGVEQH2IHANFAPI · pith_short_8: VAGVEQH2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VAGVEQH2IHANFAPIPBMYJT5BPF \
  | 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: a80d5240fa41c0d281e8785984cfa17975213fb95027c641c5e658b09acba05f

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ffed05a26cee95f634c085eae8a8e802d66fc65e326cd516a6b8fb08f6fffc70",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-24T20:02:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ccfb034497690616ae3c9dc77ae8cebf642763a87682975a2c1904c906b55eb7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}