Pith Number

pith:VB3OBRRZ

pith:2017:VB3OBRRZ3NLQI7WD4BX4PTDXNM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Galactic wind X-ray heating of the intergalactic medium during the Epoch of Reionization

Avery Meiksin (IfA, Claudio Dalla Vecchia (Inst. Astrof. de Canarias, Jan-Pieter Paardekooper (U. Heidelberg), Sadegh Khochfar (IfA, Saul Kohn (U. Pennsylvania), U. de La Laguna), U. Edinburgh)

arxiv:1708.07341 v1 · 2017-08-24 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VB3OBRRZ3NLQI7WD4BX4PTDXNM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:27.730395Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a876e0c639db57047ec3e06fc7cc776b18d66514a1924b276213ba870a81d4d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.07341 · arxiv_version: 1708.07341v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.07341 · pith_short_12: VB3OBRRZ3NLQ · pith_short_16: VB3OBRRZ3NLQI7WD · pith_short_8: VB3OBRRZ

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/VB3OBRRZ3NLQI7WD4BX4PTDXNM \
  | 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: a876e0c639db57047ec3e06fc7cc776b18d66514a1924b276213ba870a81d4d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "043b52d850408d54cee9ce3ab4d2ecc5361c33b5b7d28341fa85ed714db7ba9f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-24T09:59:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "867ae4863390e68602d21860f5e1b7f5855641303e9d81b1895d5b350b2d95c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.07341",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}