Pith Number

pith:VNC6OOAJ

pith:2017:VNC6OOAJ2PMHHD4YBAWF6Q7LQW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Expansion of Kes 73, a Shell Supernova Remnant Containing a Magnetar

Kazimierz J. Borkowski, Stephen P. Reynolds

arxiv:1708.01626 v1 · 2017-08-04 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VNC6OOAJ2PMHHD4YBAWF6Q7LQW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:36:02.770211Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab45e73809d3d8738f98082c5f43eb85be346498b181075cd9a3c1bb52b6fe83

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.01626 · arxiv_version: 1708.01626v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.01626 · pith_short_12: VNC6OOAJ2PMH · pith_short_16: VNC6OOAJ2PMHHD4Y · pith_short_8: VNC6OOAJ

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/VNC6OOAJ2PMHHD4YBAWF6Q7LQW \
  | 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: ab45e73809d3d8738f98082c5f43eb85be346498b181075cd9a3c1bb52b6fe83

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2819c90d4ba161e2ec00a118553c9b69ef79190456248bbd1cea1ae6f56475ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-04T18:10:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5f383c3531f5ac35ba5ce1f04edd55ce9fe15da86c76d58a49e7b94b37056654"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.01626",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}