Pith Number

pith:VC32JNO2

pith:2016:VC32JNO22JUKWK2ULPKEA2R4MH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scientific Goals of the Kunlun Infrared Sky Survey (KISS)

Chris Curtin, Hui Zhang, Jeff Cooke, Jeremy Mould, Jessica Zheng, Jon Lawrence, Lifan Wang, Michael Ashley, Michael Burton, Michael Ireland, Syed Ashraf Uddin, Xiangyan Yuan, Xuefend Wu

arxiv:1608.02345 v1 · 2016-08-08 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VC32JNO22JUKWK2ULPKEA2R4MH}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:48.637031Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8b7a4b5dad268ab2b545bd4406a3c61d3baaf4d44fbf9c016431e676d2991bf

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.02345 · arxiv_version: 1608.02345v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.02345 · pith_short_12: VC32JNO22JUK · pith_short_16: VC32JNO22JUKWK2U · pith_short_8: VC32JNO2

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/VC32JNO22JUKWK2ULPKEA2R4MH \
  | 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: a8b7a4b5dad268ab2b545bd4406a3c61d3baaf4d44fbf9c016431e676d2991bf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "37274f8f672efe1f8bcd1b74d957d7ec4efcd93b1ebe0028fea8517675d3c35c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-08T08:08:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed5dc0f2e308ceeb2bcba69fc54f3473a15bd570b769b0f8ea8f1bdc333879a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.02345",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}