Pith Number

pith:VJPR5PKX

pith:2018:VJPR5PKXK53FM4C32BTRRHDEBH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

ALMA, ATCA, and Spitzer Observations of the Luminous Extragalactic Supernova SN 1978K

E. C. Kool, I. A. Smith, R. Kotak, S. D. Ryder, S. K. Randall

arxiv:1811.11267 v1 · 2018-11-27 · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VJPR5PKXK53FM4C32BTRRHDEBH}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-17T23:56:27.527391Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa5f1ebd57577656705bd067189c6409db00b060380336eea4fd25c20c742abe

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.11267 · arxiv_version: 1811.11267v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.11267 · pith_short_12: VJPR5PKXK53F · pith_short_16: VJPR5PKXK53FM4C3 · pith_short_8: VJPR5PKX

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/VJPR5PKXK53FM4C32BTRRHDEBH \
  | 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: aa5f1ebd57577656705bd067189c6409db00b060380336eea4fd25c20c742abe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "84af8f6cfd99f4d3bfa9dfd27fd2f3f9e88106e79babee6b892ee97dfd522e5f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-27T21:29:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "016bac9dc41eb29156039efe7cced5c5edd6a7b1380c8a315c829192de6804a6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.11267",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}