Pith Number

pith:VYG5HDEZ

pith:2017:VYG5HDEZRXNWARDUJJWGR2ACTF

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Fifty Years of Candidate Pulsar Selection - What next?

R. J. Lyon

arxiv:1710.03513 v1 · 2017-10-10 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VYG5HDEZRXNWARDUJJWGR2ACTF}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:43.596845Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae0dd38c998ddb6044744a6c68e802994c83132d27b29c9956fb71d455debcc7

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.03513 · arxiv_version: 1710.03513v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.03513 · pith_short_12: VYG5HDEZRXNW · pith_short_16: VYG5HDEZRXNWARDU · pith_short_8: VYG5HDEZ

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/VYG5HDEZRXNWARDUJJWGR2ACTF \
  | 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: ae0dd38c998ddb6044744a6c68e802994c83132d27b29c9956fb71d455debcc7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "54c95cd1b34b77805d8f04cd4e038078c90a2a8fb8b7cd5e9066cceb2e0e648e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-10T11:10:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "966de1e3e30fb6d6d93ef369b523ff3282b1f5acdcd77eccb6db0eb2a1466750"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.03513",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}