Pith Number

pith:VAQLVYPQ

pith:2016:VAQLVYPQIACLXL6RKELUDKJQ4U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The violent white dwarf merger scenario for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae

Bo Wang, Dongdong Liu, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Zhanwen Han

arxiv:1607.00161 v1 · 2016-07-01 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VAQLVYPQIACLXL6RKELUDKJQ4U}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:51.541120Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a820bae1f04004bbafd1511741a930e524fcd86c26e36ba5a900d1a0a11e473e

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.00161 · arxiv_version: 1607.00161v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.00161 · pith_short_12: VAQLVYPQIACL · pith_short_16: VAQLVYPQIACLXL6R · pith_short_8: VAQLVYPQ

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/VAQLVYPQIACLXL6RKELUDKJQ4U \
  | 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: a820bae1f04004bbafd1511741a930e524fcd86c26e36ba5a900d1a0a11e473e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4795e43bfea165f4262579b20db218242d88f4809e721053816892065a85933a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-01T08:59:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a293a302157164d77ab39c8af7944a46427d907f2f7cb409114e21dccce4d7c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.00161",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}