Pith Number

pith:WOG2AUZ3

pith:2018:WOG2AUZ3WAYN6GCY3U3DX2FN55

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Status of Astronomy in Namibia

2), (2) North-West University, Centre for Space Research), Department of Physics, E. K. Kasai (1), M. Backes (1, R. Evans (1), R. Steenkamp (1) ((1) University of Namibia

arxiv:1811.01440 v1 · 2018-11-04 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WOG2AUZ3WAYN6GCY3U3DX2FN55}

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4 Citations open

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Millimeter-wave Monitoring of Active Galactic Nuclei with the Africa Millimetre Telescope

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:01:34.309985Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b38da0533bb030df1858dd363be8adef590e3179f60bb224a6fd63dff125f165

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.01440 · arxiv_version: 1811.01440v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.01440 · pith_short_12: WOG2AUZ3WAYN · pith_short_16: WOG2AUZ3WAYN6GCY · pith_short_8: WOG2AUZ3

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WOG2AUZ3WAYN6GCY3U3DX2FN55 \
  | 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: b38da0533bb030df1858dd363be8adef590e3179f60bb224a6fd63dff125f165

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "51e9d2f6be3bf64f9cc06bda5a68b5f71c0120457e4ec9cd8632739c68ded015",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-04T21:39:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d0a633d0464f965a3074d2bdacbedbe319703f47d4af67a3735f7a2a803ecbdc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.01440",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}