Pith Number

pith:VCAMCBI7

pith:2017:VCAMCBI7GWZHTJLGMSIVHISKAA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

GRB 170817A: a short GRB seen off-axis

Pak-Hin Thomas Tam, Rong-Feng Shen (SYSU), Xin-Bo He

arxiv:1710.05869 v2 · 2017-10-16 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCAMCBI7GWZHTJLGMSIVHISKAA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:17:08.831804Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a880c1051f35b279a566649153a24a003efe89df1068917b601539c67845f75f

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.05869 · arxiv_version: 1710.05869v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.05869 · pith_short_12: VCAMCBI7GWZH · pith_short_16: VCAMCBI7GWZHTJLG · pith_short_8: VCAMCBI7

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/VCAMCBI7GWZHTJLGMSIVHISKAA \
  | 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: a880c1051f35b279a566649153a24a003efe89df1068917b601539c67845f75f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8c05437e191039ec094d69043c6e02721629b2dcc899a0f600d1afd19a3a279",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-16T17:02:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "948ac84ed91b8632796e604e4d4ab62824ae190d85271a9852ac257efc4f40cb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.05869",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}