Pith Number

pith:VLCKA3G3

pith:2010:VLCKA3G3OU4ZLI6WJUBPBXCXUO

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A giant planet imaged in the disk of the young star Beta Pictoris

A. Boccaletti, A.-M. Lagrange, D. Apai, D. Ehrenreich, D. Gratadour, D. Mouillet, D. Rouan, G. Chauvin, M. Bonnefoy, M. Kasper, S. Lacour

arxiv:1006.3314 v1 · 2010-06-16 · astro-ph.EP

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T02:06:45.365518Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aac4a06cdb753995a3d64d02f0dc57a3a57ad090bc9460487ea52cc3501ef532

Aliases

arxiv: 1006.3314 · arxiv_version: 1006.3314v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1006.3314 · pith_short_12: VLCKA3G3OU4Z · pith_short_16: VLCKA3G3OU4ZLI6W · pith_short_8: VLCKA3G3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VLCKA3G3OU4ZLI6WJUBPBXCXUO \
  | 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: aac4a06cdb753995a3d64d02f0dc57a3a57ad090bc9460487ea52cc3501ef532

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f890de060a7d0dfe5d73c37f55ac0db21e46e1316b979742480f7eaacd00cd48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2010-06-16T20:01:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "522e52b35d41ad9acf058acb93106edbd828b7cb84b5d60863495478a32ec822"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1006.3314",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}