Pith Number

pith:VSEKPPON

pith:1998:VSEKPPONPA5KN36OOJLCRZHDKY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The COBE Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment Search for the Cosmic Infrared Background: IV. Cosmological Implications

D. Fixsen, D. Leisawitz, E. Dwek, E. L. Wright, J. C. Mather, J. L. Weiland, M. G. Hauser, N. Odegard, R. F. Silverberg, R. G. Arendt, R. Shafer, S. H. Moseley, T. Kelsall, Y. C. Pei

arxiv:astro-ph/9806129 v1 · 1998-06-09 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSEKPPONPA5KN36OOJLCRZHDKY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T16:06:45.056904Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac88a7bdcd783aa6efce725628e4e35613c86697548fc371837d689e4ac3f042

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9806129 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9806129v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9806129 · pith_short_12: VSEKPPONPA5K · pith_short_16: VSEKPPONPA5KN36O · pith_short_8: VSEKPPON

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/VSEKPPONPA5KN36OOJLCRZHDKY \
  | 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: ac88a7bdcd783aa6efce725628e4e35613c86697548fc371837d689e4ac3f042

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "10c0123248f890cf0595b60765d45710deee678ffc06ae3f8dbdf1b9d2ad2c54",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-06-09T17:29:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6e71ca90d6d3964f1e65b95d3d766552998c41ce45620975a6d023c1936f1a7a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9806129",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}