Pith Number

pith:VKEP5UR4

pith:2015:VKEP5UR4JIADBF636HAQLN3IBD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The rapid decay phase of the afterglow as the signature of the Blandford-Znajek mechanism

Achillies Strantzalis, Antonios Nathanail, Ioannis Contopoulos

arxiv:1507.02143 v1 · 2015-07-08 · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VKEP5UR4JIADBF636HAQLN3IBD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:24:18.794686Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa88fed23c4a003097dbf1c105b76808cb7d2c973dc23411c197b48e8618a449

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.02143 · arxiv_version: 1507.02143v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.02143 · pith_short_12: VKEP5UR4JIAD · pith_short_16: VKEP5UR4JIADBF63 · pith_short_8: VKEP5UR4

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/VKEP5UR4JIADBF636HAQLN3IBD \
  | 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: aa88fed23c4a003097dbf1c105b76808cb7d2c973dc23411c197b48e8618a449

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "64e59dfc9096c670157279719deafcea3e58c39c4869f9d50387d9a373878e35",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-08T13:23:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "582915f4048992fdedbb0cc087687ec606796c2234d63aa2c36c4a429f3bb7a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.02143",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}