Pith Number

pith:WBQDTVSL

pith:2018:WBQDTVSLU22LZNHNDOQJ32D47U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

ASASSN-15nx: A luminous Type II supernova with a "perfect" linear decline

Andrea Pastorello, Antonia Morales-Garoffolo, Barry F. Madore, B. J. Shappee, Boaz Katz, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Christopher Bilinski, C. S. Kochanek, David Bersier, E. Cappellaro, Jeffrey A. Rich, Jennifer E. Andrews, J. L. Prieto, Joseph Brimacombe, Juna Kollmeier, K. Z. Stanek, Leonardo Tartaglia, L. Tomasella, Nathan Smith, N. Elias-Rosa, Peter Milne, Ping Chen, Seiichiro Kiyota, Stefano Benetti, Subhash Bose (KIAA-PKU), Subo Dong (KIAA-PKU), T. W.-S. Holoien

arxiv:1804.00025 v2 · 2018-03-30 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WBQDTVSLU22LZNHNDOQJ32D47U}

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:42.726461Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b06039d64ba6b4bcb4ed1ba09de87cfd0ef93b71ba0773a05e3d70027b82f8c1

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.00025 · arxiv_version: 1804.00025v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.00025 · pith_short_12: WBQDTVSLU22L · pith_short_16: WBQDTVSLU22LZNHN · pith_short_8: WBQDTVSL

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/WBQDTVSLU22LZNHNDOQJ32D47U \
  | 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: b06039d64ba6b4bcb4ed1ba09de87cfd0ef93b71ba0773a05e3d70027b82f8c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "19ecfb052b6c50a7b8175091d802ef85739c0e3328d20d20e6eb01570f92ef62",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-30T18:29:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eb2ea0eeb28c58ae64b029b222c396b36b9d22326e3f574d606ad889b253070a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.00025",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}