Pith Number

pith:WGLXHBJ2

pith:2017:WGLXHBJ2HSXOBYCOC3LWBZ3KRU

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Detection of the linearly polarised spectrum of the red supergiant star alpha Ori

Agn\`es L\`ebre, Arturo L\`opez-Ariste, Benjamin Tessore, Eric Josselin, Julien Morin, Philippe Mathias

arxiv:1702.02002 v2 · 2017-02-07 · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{WGLXHBJ2HSXOBYCOC3LWBZ3KRU}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:51:06.700066Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b19773853a3caee0e04e16d760e76a8d05513703984a08d4f0b03462080592bb

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.02002 · arxiv_version: 1702.02002v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.02002 · pith_short_12: WGLXHBJ2HSXO · pith_short_16: WGLXHBJ2HSXOBYCO · pith_short_8: WGLXHBJ2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WGLXHBJ2HSXOBYCOC3LWBZ3KRU \
  | 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: b19773853a3caee0e04e16d760e76a8d05513703984a08d4f0b03462080592bb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01a7e0f8371114df4c630c08f31f4b6a09e23fe941009716eb14fc4fe981b6d0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-07T13:26:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3cdce95f883ae800c521d0d1e8ccba8830b4a002e0308db5360c31266444b4c2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.02002",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}