Pith Number

pith:VCPAPQWL

pith:2003:VCPAPQWL772RGQJNSJIGIK3TT6

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A Late-Time Flattening of Afterglow Light Curves

B. D. Metzger, D. A. Frail, E. Berger, S. A. Yost, S. R. Kulkarni

arxiv:astro-ph/0308189 v1 · 2003-08-11 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{VCPAPQWL772RGQJNSJIGIK3TT6}

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:51:27.263245Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a89e07c2cbfff513412d9250642b739f82b39d156ceb75964b92546775325ad5

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0308189 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0308189v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0308189 · pith_short_12: VCPAPQWL772R · pith_short_16: VCPAPQWL772RGQJN · pith_short_8: VCPAPQWL

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/VCPAPQWL772RGQJNSJIGIK3TT6 \
  | 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: a89e07c2cbfff513412d9250642b739f82b39d156ceb75964b92546775325ad5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b9cd834ab39af8c0212447bae2bf061d9c69a7558978d0cfc895378a80fc9fd3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-08-11T20:03:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dce5e6721cc67cb44571573df5bb5a92a5a654c7dd52fd121aa4a984d89b7608"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0308189",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}