Pith Number

pith:VNKQKMWL

pith:2017:VNKQKMWLLUW3QM43OIVNOVA4KS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scale size-dependent characteristics of the nightside aurora

B. K. Humberset, J.W. Gjerloev, M. Samara, R. G. Michell

arxiv:1706.01701 v1 · 2017-06-06 · physics.space-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VNKQKMWLLUW3QM43OIVNOVA4KS}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:42:56.229525Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab550532cb5d2db8339b722ad7541c548ea9884b4cfc756011ec70a7bd3251ce

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.01701 · arxiv_version: 1706.01701v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.01701 · pith_short_12: VNKQKMWLLUW3 · pith_short_16: VNKQKMWLLUW3QM43 · pith_short_8: VNKQKMWL

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/VNKQKMWLLUW3QM43OIVNOVA4KS \
  | 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: ab550532cb5d2db8339b722ad7541c548ea9884b4cfc756011ec70a7bd3251ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f56cc2be037e66053fbeb0e214b34eea1ce51cf729ee09a3920dbf876c27249a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.space-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-06T11:22:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0047708740e3a1d011dad175da0fb3d7736e1b0af940c0c84ee7dacaa302ea2d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.01701",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}