Pith Number

pith:W2KT3MIB

pith:2016:W2KT3MIBZDBO5UPWR5ABAOYZXG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Winds of change: reionization by starburst galaxies

Carlos Frenk (Durham), Joop Schaye (Leiden), Mahavir Sharma (Durham), Matthieu Schaller (Durham), Richard G. Bower (Durham), Robert A. Crain (Liverpool), Tom Theuns (Durham)

arxiv:1606.08688 v2 · 2016-06-28 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W2KT3MIBZDBO5UPWR5ABAOYZXG}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:46:16.628340Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6953db101c8c2eed1f68f40103b19b9a0164c00b22dff2e77516fdb264f6596

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.08688 · arxiv_version: 1606.08688v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.08688 · pith_short_12: W2KT3MIBZDBO · pith_short_16: W2KT3MIBZDBO5UPW · pith_short_8: W2KT3MIB

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/W2KT3MIBZDBO5UPWR5ABAOYZXG \
  | 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: b6953db101c8c2eed1f68f40103b19b9a0164c00b22dff2e77516fdb264f6596

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "263577d7d24d4354831f752e3c2cf617ee447fc70f9f1804d4a75bea87650db2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-28T13:25:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d91b7b0f1c3759f1ca662125c49f3748c03070ca70c437ff1f57ea8c21278606"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.08688",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}