Pith Number

pith:VV2MYNLH

pith:2014:VV2MYNLH3C2TY4AJPVKLSEPANX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The \^G Infrared Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations with Large Energy Supplies. I. Background and Justification

B. Mullan, J. T. Wright, M. S. Povich, S. Sigur{\eth}sson

arxiv:1408.1133 v1 · 2014-08-05 · physics.pop-ph · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VV2MYNLH3C2TY4AJPVKLSEPANX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:42:23.510023Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad74cc3567d8b53c70097d54b911e06dfb8f1eaa2297a006a077aa155badb1ed

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.1133 · arxiv_version: 1408.1133v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.1133 · pith_short_12: VV2MYNLH3C2T · pith_short_16: VV2MYNLH3C2TY4AJ · pith_short_8: VV2MYNLH

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/VV2MYNLH3C2TY4AJPVKLSEPANX \
  | 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: ad74cc3567d8b53c70097d54b911e06dfb8f1eaa2297a006a077aa155badb1ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5efb47a269541fde6d9dafde1338af6122c934e54c42a5ed1a726f67a59675d9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.pop-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-05T22:20:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f8b01178d9c3ed675c8dc18d44cca41d85e5767128dbb7a17e1c2f61d2a5dd7b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.1133",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}