Pith Number

pith:VG7GVT3B

pith:2023:VG7GVT3BVQCXMK3Y7SXMLFKJ7X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A VERITAS/Breakthrough Listen Search for Optical Technosignatures

Abraham Falcone, Amy Furniss, Andrew Siemion, Anjana Talluri, Aryeh Brill, Atreya Acharyya, Avery Archer, Claire Hinrichs, Colin Adams, Connor Mooney, Conor McGrath, Danny Price, David DeBoer, David Hanna, David Kieda, David Williams, Deivid Ribeiro, Donggeun Tak, Elisa Pueschel, Emmet Thomas Roache, Gernot Maier, Glenn H Sembroski, Gregory Foote, Hayden Miller, Howard Isaacson, Iftach Sadeh, Imke de Pater, James Tucci, Jamie Holder, Jamie Ryan, John Finley, John Hoang, John Millis, John Quinn, Jooyun Woo (VERITAS Collaboration), Kenneth J. Ragan, Lab Saha, Lucy Fortson, Manel Errando, Marcos Santander, Maria Kherlakian, Mark Lang, Martin Pohl, Mary P. Kertzman, Matthew Lundy, Matthew Millard, M Capasso, Nico Vazquez, Nikolas Korzoun, Olivier Hervet, Patrick Moriarty, Paul Reynolds, Pedro Batista, Philip Kaaret, Priyadarshini Bangale, Qi Feng, Rene A. Ong, Reshmi Mukherjee, Ruo Shang, Sajan Kumar, Sam Wong, Sean Griffin, Stephan O'Brien, T. Humensky, Tobias Kleiner, Weidong Jin, William Hanlon, Wystan Benbow

arxiv:2306.17680 v1 · 2023-06-30 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VG7GVT3BVQCXMK3Y7SXMLFKJ7X}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T06:39:02.649481Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9be6acf61ac05762b78fcaec59549fde26759ea835e559bbbefd101d09eb3bd

Aliases

arxiv: 2306.17680 · arxiv_version: 2306.17680v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.17680 · pith_short_12: VG7GVT3BVQCX · pith_short_16: VG7GVT3BVQCXMK3Y · pith_short_8: VG7GVT3B

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/VG7GVT3BVQCXMK3Y7SXMLFKJ7X \
  | 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: a9be6acf61ac05762b78fcaec59549fde26759ea835e559bbbefd101d09eb3bd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d37fca9bcb9f9f9a9f5159fe78afa8ce8703a69f88827372fdb4b3ed9111a0d2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2023-06-30T14:11:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "110b7385e06162f08948852aeb1906a54cb0250cdb6831e6067f8d19942dd851"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2306.17680",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}