Pith Number

pith:VJDM3SG6

pith:2017:VJDM3SG6VDXD6J5WRXNDHCE5SO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Temporal intensity interferometry: photon bunching on three bright stars

A. Dussaux, D. Vernet, F. Vakili, G. Labeyrie, J.-P. Rivet, M. Fouch\'e, R. Kaiser, W. Guerin

arxiv:1708.06119 v1 · 2017-08-21 · astro-ph.IM · physics.optics · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VJDM3SG6VDXD6J5WRXNDHCE5SO}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:08:23.518416Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa46cdc8dea8ee3f27b68dda33889d9386495f4272e7dec7ec519b729fe81d2f

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.06119 · arxiv_version: 1708.06119v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.06119 · pith_short_12: VJDM3SG6VDXD · pith_short_16: VJDM3SG6VDXD6J5W · pith_short_8: VJDM3SG6

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/VJDM3SG6VDXD6J5WRXNDHCE5SO \
  | 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: aa46cdc8dea8ee3f27b68dda33889d9386495f4272e7dec7ec519b729fe81d2f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8fff85c2f54492ff8bdfb04ac8f0a721e09081d5d1bc6e43ceb77c987c41af9e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.optics",
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-21T08:36:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46fb67bcbb32499fcf03e23e12757db246b10d94b8a65a4d84934bcb3b50635e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.06119",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}