Pith Number

pith:VAJ7R2MY

pith:2023:VAJ7R2MYTTP2RUHEI6HC7RZ7QG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Astronomy as a Field: A Guide for Aspiring Astrophysicists

Ava Polzin, Candice Stauffer, Deanne Coppejans, Emily Lichko, Emily Simon, Emma Louden, Erica Nelson, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Irina Zhuravleva, J. Luna Zagorac, Julie Malewicz, Katelyn Breivik, Katherine E. Whitaker, Katie Auchettl, Kim L. Page, Lindsay DeMarchi, Madison Brady, Malena Rice, Mandy C. Chen, Michelle Foucoin, Priyamvada Natarajan, Raffaella Margutti, Samantha Pagan, Sanah Bhimani, Silvia Toonen, Sthabile Kolwa, Yasmeen Asali, Zili Shen

arxiv:2312.04041 v2 · 2023-12-07 · astro-ph.IM · physics.ed-ph · physics.pop-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VAJ7R2MYTTP2RUHEI6HC7RZ7QG}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-28T21:06:51.567887Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a813f8e9989cdfa8d0e4478e2fc73f81a501581edf5829dae4f53ae6b26c36ad

Aliases

arxiv: 2312.04041 · arxiv_version: 2312.04041v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.04041 · pith_short_12: VAJ7R2MYTTP2 · pith_short_16: VAJ7R2MYTTP2RUHE · pith_short_8: VAJ7R2MY

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/VAJ7R2MYTTP2RUHEI6HC7RZ7QG \
  | 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: a813f8e9989cdfa8d0e4478e2fc73f81a501581edf5829dae4f53ae6b26c36ad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "25cf23f5dd82f287a8eec4272198ce6a06d5f2b7fcc8b30687828a1a36dd01d7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ed-ph",
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2023-12-07T05:00:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c963e455adabdaa0df2ea9454af0947f38b41562f568e6d555adffe5b1d10e3f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2312.04041",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}