Pith Number

pith:VWQ5QPLD

pith:2012:VWQ5QPLDGW5MCKCH3CSZQ3TR3Y

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A method for localizing energy dissipation in blazars using Fermi variability

Amanda Dotson, Demosthenes Kazanas, Eric S. Perlman, Markos Georganopoulos

arxiv:1209.2053 v1 · 2012-09-10 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VWQ5QPLDGW5MCKCH3CSZQ3TR3Y}

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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	2026-05-18T01:54:37.528328Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ada1d83d6335bac12847d8a5986e71de0b893819d0045e9d9b8c56687110b8b3

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.2053 · arxiv_version: 1209.2053v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.2053 · pith_short_12: VWQ5QPLDGW5M · pith_short_16: VWQ5QPLDGW5MCKCH · pith_short_8: VWQ5QPLD

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/VWQ5QPLDGW5MCKCH3CSZQ3TR3Y \
  | 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: ada1d83d6335bac12847d8a5986e71de0b893819d0045e9d9b8c56687110b8b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e917c8279038c79bc327e436c2bfeedae5cc4585c0c392e8741298f656a4b4ea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-10T16:24:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c73e4ab2bc943cf7617844aacdc5ce51b26c8f4eb93e7071d2fc05a51b223553"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.2053",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}