Pith Number

pith:VMZUSVV7

pith:2014:VMZUSVV7OFIFKV3GRALXUP7SOU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Observations of the M82 SN 2014J with the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope

1), ((1) Vanderbilt University, (2) Stockholm University, 3), (3) Fisk University, (4) Lehigh University), Ariel Goobar (2), Joshua Pepper (4, Keivan G. Stassun (1, Robert J. Siverd (1)

arxiv:1411.4150 v1 · 2014-11-15 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VMZUSVV7OFIFKV3GRALXUP7SOU}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:41:30.207140Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab334956bf715055576688177a3ff27520ef1d9806937a8451795046876afe57

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.4150 · arxiv_version: 1411.4150v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.4150 · pith_short_12: VMZUSVV7OFIF · pith_short_16: VMZUSVV7OFIFKV3G · pith_short_8: VMZUSVV7

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/VMZUSVV7OFIFKV3GRALXUP7SOU \
  | 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: ab334956bf715055576688177a3ff27520ef1d9806937a8451795046876afe57

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ff7c883c2b3030e736a130ef0c7a5c689e18e42b681de4f4124d456309ea029",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-15T14:28:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "abd2dab589b4eabae1ec13977d0352d82f860777ad8cec4d425965fe6e2c2fbf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.4150",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}