Pith Number

pith:VBKZQ5MJ

pith:2016:VBKZQ5MJNUQAGE6PL6J5IG6WWU

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One-Port Direct/Reverse Method for Characterizing VNA Calibration Standards

Alan E.E. Rogers, Judd D. Bowman, Raul A. Monsalve, Thomas J. Mozdzen

arxiv:1606.02446 v1 · 2016-06-08 · astro-ph.IM · physics.ins-det

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VBKZQ5MJNUQAGE6PL6J5IG6WWU}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:08:16.689689Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8559875896d200313cf5f93d41bd6b527a01013816320173c524adb9a7e41fc

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.02446 · arxiv_version: 1606.02446v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.02446 · pith_short_12: VBKZQ5MJNUQA · pith_short_16: VBKZQ5MJNUQAGE6P · pith_short_8: VBKZQ5MJ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VBKZQ5MJNUQAGE6PL6J5IG6WWU \
  | 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: a8559875896d200313cf5f93d41bd6b527a01013816320173c524adb9a7e41fc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "83e15bd579bf3b3e78583376cccbea5a1f19ea6d7c3ab31bfed638c8837055a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.ins-det"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-08T08:23:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ff06c3f96aecc764aa181a92cd46030fa6f08101cc64271317e7ac4ee85f84b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.02446",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}