Pith Number

pith:VGV4ULSH

pith:2016:VGV4ULSHY5QHRLOIMEEJ42SFFI

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2), (2) Dept. of Astronomy, 3), (3) Dept. of Physics, (4) Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), (5) INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, (6) Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Francesco Fontani (5), Germany, Germany), Italy, Jonathan C. Tan (1, Mengyao Liu (1), Michael J. Butler (6) ((1) Dept. of Astronomy, Paola Caselli (4), Shuo Kong (1, University of Florida, USA, Yale University

arxiv:1609.06008 v3 · 2016-09-20 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VGV4ULSHY5QHRLOIMEEJ42SFFI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:38.687596Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9abca2e47c76078adc861089e6a452a365d966a9fa5da08d74b2b89670a2f5a

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.06008 · arxiv_version: 1609.06008v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.06008 · pith_short_12: VGV4ULSHY5QH · pith_short_16: VGV4ULSHY5QHRLOI · pith_short_8: VGV4ULSH

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/VGV4ULSHY5QHRLOIMEEJ42SFFI \
  | 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: a9abca2e47c76078adc861089e6a452a365d966a9fa5da08d74b2b89670a2f5a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b2a95410337f633e14cebc19b2f210c0522f3fa74e2b68301d031f8218825e79",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-20T03:12:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12b953f0c28f5cd8d6bcfa62bdfb9ab4f1eb564aecc7cf14c523335cd446fb21"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.06008",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}