Pith Number

pith:VG7OTHLC

pith:2017:VG7OTHLCL7MFMU2KXDOVK626ZL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Spectroscopic Study of the Rich Supernova Remnant Population in M83

Knox S. Long, P. Frank Winkler, William P. Blair

arxiv:1703.03068 v1 · 2017-03-08 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VG7OTHLCL7MFMU2KXDOVK626ZL}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T00:45:41.598073Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9bee99d625fd856534ab8dd557b5ecadf6db27f72c95f31334861a2f4fb78fd

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.03068 · arxiv_version: 1703.03068v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.03068 · pith_short_12: VG7OTHLCL7MF · pith_short_16: VG7OTHLCL7MFMU2K · pith_short_8: VG7OTHLC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VG7OTHLCL7MFMU2KXDOVK626ZL \
  | 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: a9bee99d625fd856534ab8dd557b5ecadf6db27f72c95f31334861a2f4fb78fd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14b0493e2cb028ee6031369e20d57d3ca07bce896d1218bb9d21d01a32787a6a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-08T23:12:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dd84bdfb4edbd86a793058a646413b5a94b13f037228de896abe283b03b2173d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.03068",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}