Pith Number

pith:VHZLFVSS

pith:1997:VHZLFVSSWYZGEKAUKE2VDA7CNJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Approximation for the rp-Process

C. Freiburghaus, F.-K. Thielemann, F. Rembges, H. Schatz, M. Wiescher, T. Rauscher

arxiv:astro-ph/9701217 v1 · 1997-01-28 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VHZLFVSSWYZGEKAUKE2VDA7CNJ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:40.214342Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9f2b2d652b63262281451355183e26a4d0ded16f69b8ace60d80b36918db7e4

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9701217 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9701217v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9701217 · pith_short_12: VHZLFVSSWYZG · pith_short_16: VHZLFVSSWYZGEKAU · pith_short_8: VHZLFVSS

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/VHZLFVSSWYZGEKAUKE2VDA7CNJ \
  | 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: a9f2b2d652b63262281451355183e26a4d0ded16f69b8ace60d80b36918db7e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "427ee2d734188f8187136c2f540c8d1cff9b34840f84ce7e2c94a2443f33e24a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-01-28T18:17:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "41afdbb475d0af432e8debd1efcb9814a837ee7604c1fa0ad229d31edd691368"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9701217",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}