Pith Number

pith:VH2Z5PZS

pith:2017:VH2Z5PZSM5KCEU7JFJLUENM5YQ

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An Updated 2017 Astrometric Solution for Betelgeuse

A. Brown, A. M. S. Richards, E. F. Guinan, E. O'Gorman, G. M. Harper, L. Decin, P. Kervella

arxiv:1706.06020 v1 · 2017-06-19 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VH2Z5PZSM5KCEU7JFJLUENM5YQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:41:31.911229Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9f59ebf3267542253e92a5742359dc409f1cf8fb3cc7186d4259e26765b9177

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.06020 · arxiv_version: 1706.06020v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.06020 · pith_short_12: VH2Z5PZSM5KC · pith_short_16: VH2Z5PZSM5KCEU7J · pith_short_8: VH2Z5PZS

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/VH2Z5PZSM5KCEU7JFJLUENM5YQ \
  | 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: a9f59ebf3267542253e92a5742359dc409f1cf8fb3cc7186d4259e26765b9177

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b75247726cbaafd5bd5b3537cd1c60a91b011f39f80c47333d89d1e9207f9936",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-19T15:38:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e0b5fd8a7fa2fc34f2820156086af71b5115fe70ee4bc8c75b88a2deceaa087e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.06020",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}