Pith Number

pith:VMKD6LGX

pith:2012:VMKD6LGX3KVD2VTVWWJ7C74EJH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

XMM-Newton Observations of Three Interacting Luminous Infrared Galaxies

Cristian Vignali, Dale Mudd, Enrico Piconcelli, Fabrizio Fiore, Fabrizio Nicastro, Giorgio Lanzuisi, Matteo Guainazzi, Roberto Maiolino, Smita Mathur, Stefanie Komossa, Stefano Bianchi

arxiv:1211.1674 v2 · 2012-11-07 · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VMKD6LGX3KVD2VTVWWJ7C74EJH}

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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	2026-05-18T01:37:21.929833Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab143f2cd7daaa3d5675b593f17f8449d32a1bd691c6ef09f744a30d8c09195f

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.1674 · arxiv_version: 1211.1674v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.1674 · pith_short_12: VMKD6LGX3KVD · pith_short_16: VMKD6LGX3KVD2VTV · pith_short_8: VMKD6LGX

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/VMKD6LGX3KVD2VTVWWJ7C74EJH \
  | 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: ab143f2cd7daaa3d5675b593f17f8449d32a1bd691c6ef09f744a30d8c09195f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd5cb92b5021ecfabcc8158ef9fd91e9ae23f16004b5daaf6e67e892f6c57251",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-07T21:00:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a4825ee28ea057d3cb03058af4727f477a7bbcbe053175e90bbca88b9aa28199"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.1674",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}