Pith Number

pith:VIRPLOPI

pith:2001:VIRPLOPIS3F5MAIFHCIGVF4PRR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The milliJansky 12 micron Population: First Followup

A. Franceschini, D.L. Clements, F-X. Desert

arxiv:astro-ph/0103242 v1 · 2001-03-15 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VIRPLOPIS3F5MAIFHCIGVF4PRR}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T16:22:52.596426Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa22f5b9e896cbd6010538906a978f8c4d91b0a1f1063b315acec8bf90c0899d

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0103242 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0103242v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0103242 · pith_short_12: VIRPLOPIS3F5 · pith_short_16: VIRPLOPIS3F5MAIF · pith_short_8: VIRPLOPI

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/VIRPLOPIS3F5MAIFHCIGVF4PRR \
  | 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: aa22f5b9e896cbd6010538906a978f8c4d91b0a1f1063b315acec8bf90c0899d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "80d1b52e2968b0d3592c68f93cbf9d1f9706736e315e263b3717d5b44794e594",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-03-15T15:37:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f64df31cd1c79e30e993626775eb40f397de8a837b7b5fb743092bc4feac8b6c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0103242",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}