Pith Number

pith:VXYVYAKM

pith:2016:VXYVYAKMUQMAYV6FCHPRDFJFJY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

KIC 3749404: A heartbeat Star with Rapid Apsidal Advance Indicative of a Tertiary Component

Andrej Prsa, Avi Shporer, David W. Latham, Donald W. Kurtz, James Fuller, Kelly M. Hambleton, Sam N. Quinn, Simon J. Murphy, Susan E. Thompson

arxiv:1608.02493 v1 · 2016-08-08 · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VXYVYAKMUQMAYV6FCHPRDFJFJY}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:08:37.507566Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

adf15c014ca4180c57c511df1195254e3e817f0f943f56237c50b8242b2a507f

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.02493 · arxiv_version: 1608.02493v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.02493 · pith_short_12: VXYVYAKMUQMA · pith_short_16: VXYVYAKMUQMAYV6F · pith_short_8: VXYVYAKM

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/VXYVYAKMUQMAYV6FCHPRDFJFJY \
  | 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: adf15c014ca4180c57c511df1195254e3e817f0f943f56237c50b8242b2a507f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "46bf79e50e97c4176f1aba003093e8c6f57087c41a6c22a8020835a272d859ab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-08T15:35:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b79a76237f726aa05e78bbdc8feb3f3a877ba33e020d155b7af16b285ccc4b3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.02493",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}