Pith Number

pith:VVSRGQ2C

pith:2018:VVSRGQ2CMJVJA6L2CYYAXPVAKQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Precise Distance to the Host Galaxy of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 Using Surface Brightness Fluctuations

A. Grado, A. J. Levan, A. S. Fruchter, D. E. Holz, E. Berger, E. Brocato, G. Raimondo, I. Mandel, J. B. Jensen, J. D. Lyman, J. Hjorth, J. P. Blakeslee, K. D. Alexander, M. Branchesi, Michele Cantiello, M. Nicholl, N. R. Tanvir, P. D'Avanzo, P. K. Blanchard, P. K. G. Williams, P. S. Cowperthwaite, R. Chornock, R. Margutti, S. Covino, T. Eftekhari, V. A. Villar, W. Fong, Z. Cano

arxiv:1801.06080 v2 · 2018-01-18 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVSRGQ2CMJVJA6L2CYYAXPVAKQ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Bayesian inference for compact binary coalescences with BILBY: Validation and application to the first LIGO--Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalogue

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:21:06.559596Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad65134342626a90797a16300bbea0543831b98faba63ebd0eec1c8d65bdfb93

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.06080 · arxiv_version: 1801.06080v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.06080 · pith_short_12: VVSRGQ2CMJVJ · pith_short_16: VVSRGQ2CMJVJA6L2 · pith_short_8: VVSRGQ2C

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/VVSRGQ2CMJVJA6L2CYYAXPVAKQ \
  | 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: ad65134342626a90797a16300bbea0543831b98faba63ebd0eec1c8d65bdfb93

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "045153928395ef111e2d267c8382c453c3a3755871f7ad0bc53ce479ea21dedc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-18T15:02:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6078d22cb7f5a5998eb5a45f01c728401215735dacde248341c25a7509dc7dc0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.06080",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}