Pith Number

pith:VPM5PKIN

pith:2009:VPM5PKINY2W5MBI5VGYBYXIRI3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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A. D. Falcone, D. N. Burrows, D. Palmer, E. Seifert, J. Fredley, K. Reichard, M. Kelly, M. Zugger, P. Roming, P. Wood, R. Klar, R. W. M. Smith, S. Barthelmy, S. Persyn, W. Chang

arxiv:0908.3005 v1 · 2009-08-21 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VPM5PKINY2W5MBI5VGYBYXIRI3}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T02:12:24.559640Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abd9d7a90dc6add6051da9b01c5d1146dac759235090d3fcdf2d8d1719d4209d

Aliases

arxiv: 0908.3005 · arxiv_version: 0908.3005v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0908.3005 · pith_short_12: VPM5PKINY2W5 · pith_short_16: VPM5PKINY2W5MBI5 · pith_short_8: VPM5PKIN

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/VPM5PKINY2W5MBI5VGYBYXIRI3 \
  | 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: abd9d7a90dc6add6051da9b01c5d1146dac759235090d3fcdf2d8d1719d4209d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44ac1231a954cb1e604ced0bd317fb167ee13b383816bff10ab4de7de97e386c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2009-08-21T03:24:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "24c5b085c8a44c4cf90aa9fe5662076407175a08ef4bd94fe353a2e13d072c09"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0908.3005",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}