Pith Number

pith:VXXXFGGA

pith:2017:VXXXFGGAFCGNNYIIXPE4IZZD37

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X-ray and Optical Study of the Gamma-ray Source 3FGL J0838.8$-$2829: Identification of a Candidate Millisecond Pulsar Binary and an Asynchronous Polar

John R. Thorstensen, Jules P. Halpern, Slavko Bogdanov

arxiv:1701.04116 v1 · 2017-01-15 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VXXXFGGAFCGNNYIIXPE4IZZD37}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T00:47:04.482967Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

adef7298c0288cd6e108bbc9c46723dffa50b837dd801d12d88180fdb0c5152f

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.04116 · arxiv_version: 1701.04116v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.04116 · pith_short_12: VXXXFGGAFCGN · pith_short_16: VXXXFGGAFCGNNYII · pith_short_8: VXXXFGGA

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/VXXXFGGAFCGNNYIIXPE4IZZD37 \
  | 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: adef7298c0288cd6e108bbc9c46723dffa50b837dd801d12d88180fdb0c5152f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cfd9aacf43513998235f40da40fc547bd718da9ed6fa8b232b4d2fbdbfe920aa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-15T21:36:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2865828a7af2e8643dcb1a06726d6b824757db5bf858eb7fc19d06e7b7926cf1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.04116",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}