Pith Number

pith:VCSKBYRV

pith:2012:VCSKBYRVE4FAMOOHREPLRQUNX4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The bright Type IIP SN 2009bw, showing signs of interaction

A. Harutyunyan, A. Pastorello, A. S. Moskvitin, C. Inserra, D. Y. Tsvetkov, E. Baron, E. Cappellaro, F. Bufano, L. Zampieri, M.L. Pumo, M. Nissinen, M. Turatto, N. Elias-Rosa, N.N. Pavlyuk, S. Benetti, S.Taubenberger, T.N. Sokolova, V.N. Komarova, V.P. Hentunen, V. Stanishev, V.V. Sokolov

arxiv:1202.0659 v1 · 2012-02-03 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.CO

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCSKBYRVE4FAMOOHREPLRQUNX4}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:58:35.827888Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8a4a0e235270a0639c7891eb8c28dbf0108b8001661f38e573ec04b673e5356

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.0659 · arxiv_version: 1202.0659v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.0659 · pith_short_12: VCSKBYRVE4FA · pith_short_16: VCSKBYRVE4FAMOOH · pith_short_8: VCSKBYRV

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/VCSKBYRVE4FAMOOHREPLRQUNX4 \
  | 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: a8a4a0e235270a0639c7891eb8c28dbf0108b8001661f38e573ec04b673e5356

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "12155aaaea970142967f1dd35057a6a8d4960c93083539feb6b628041444213e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-03T10:56:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "83b61a2807d0eb90d50f1d86d3543344d9f2ea050c54195e80fbab4abff1c37e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.0659",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}