Pith Number

pith:VTIEVPHI

pith:1996:VTIEVPHI4A5SXN3W4RPLFC4KC7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

CIV absorption from hot gas inside supergiant shell LMC4 observed with HST and IUE

2), (2) University of Illinois, (3) SRON Laboratory for Space Research, 4) ((1) Sternwarte Univ. Bonn, (4) STSCI, Baltimore), D. J. Bomans (1, E. K. Grebel (1, Groningen, J. Koornneef (3), K. S. de Boer (1), Urbana-Champaign

arxiv:astro-ph/9607023 v1 · 1996-07-04 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTIEVPHI4A5SXN3W4RPLFC4KC7}

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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	2026-07-04T14:14:46.461381Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acd04abce8e03b2bb776e45eb28b8a17e5da67545390329739538833110bffe8

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9607023 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9607023v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9607023 · pith_short_12: VTIEVPHI4A5S · pith_short_16: VTIEVPHI4A5SXN3W · pith_short_8: VTIEVPHI

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/VTIEVPHI4A5SXN3W4RPLFC4KC7 \
  | 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: acd04abce8e03b2bb776e45eb28b8a17e5da67545390329739538833110bffe8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6edbae3ff44abb77f50bd56cff78f5cac7585fd8471a90678d8fcbaab1ae5ee1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-07-04T00:20:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6a479e186d0446e15d2bb92d8a9dd93cfb85af85f45c57ec2ab45c1a6207ae18"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9607023",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}