Pith Number

pith:WIUVJ6V3

pith:1994:WIUVJ6V3YTQD33YEQACU76AZLJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Anisotropy Induced by Cosmic Strings

A. Stebbins, B. Allen, E. P. S. Shellard, R. R. Caldwell, S. Veeraraghavan

arxiv:astro-ph/9407042 v1 · 1994-07-14 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WIUVJ6V3YTQD33YEQACU76AZLJ}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-04T14:14:28.832063Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b22954fabbc4e03def0480054ff8195a574efa319a129881bcdc5acdacd409f6

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9407042 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9407042v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9407042 · pith_short_12: WIUVJ6V3YTQD · pith_short_16: WIUVJ6V3YTQD33YE · pith_short_8: WIUVJ6V3

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/WIUVJ6V3YTQD33YEQACU76AZLJ \
  | 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: b22954fabbc4e03def0480054ff8195a574efa319a129881bcdc5acdacd409f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d21394ba1831dfb541a069c44bdfb0b7dffe0fff6e2117bb635ec1b734b1f29c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1994-07-14T20:24:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3688bd21a691517a8e0633546c50b13a300d350347da3ca846d8cb325f35e82f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9407042",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}