Pith Number

pith:VBCWBTXD

pith:2017:VBCWBTXDGWATOPYATJHSOVMTRU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Testing for Shock-Heated X-ray Gas Around Compact Steep Spectrum Radio Galaxies

B. Rothberg, C. A. Mullarkey, C. P. O'Dea, D. M. Worrall, G. R. Tremblay, J. Noel-Storr, K. P. Christiansen, R. Mittal, S. A. Baum, T. E. Clarke

arxiv:1711.03157 v1 · 2017-11-08 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBCWBTXDGWATOPYATJHSOVMTRU}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:27:18.191099Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a84560cee33581373f009a4f2755938d3676ac5974f4eddc8a579c86727a5f2c

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.03157 · arxiv_version: 1711.03157v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.03157 · pith_short_12: VBCWBTXDGWAT · pith_short_16: VBCWBTXDGWATOPYA · pith_short_8: VBCWBTXD

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/VBCWBTXDGWATOPYATJHSOVMTRU \
  | 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: a84560cee33581373f009a4f2755938d3676ac5974f4eddc8a579c86727a5f2c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7eda3a8fa89e66484ddedbd5277e25625f49ae8639c944ce40eca1871abffe3f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-08T20:46:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4960f566023370d03b3499b680aac5d58ffc5c5bdfd94292311eadc59288cc57"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.03157",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}