Pith Number

pith:WSNKU6C7

pith:2002:WSNKU6C7IX5MCMVPSRE2D4UBY4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evidence for Extremely High Dust Polarization Efficiency in NGC 3184

Alexei V. Filippenko, Douglas C. Leonard, Ryan Chornock, Weidong Li

arxiv:astro-ph/0208101 v1 · 2002-08-05 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WSNKU6C7IX5MCMVPSRE2D4UBY4}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:07:44.578766Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b49aaa785f45fac132af9449a1f281c72747cf4412254913dad8b0e34e9ff799

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0208101 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0208101v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0208101 · pith_short_12: WSNKU6C7IX5M · pith_short_16: WSNKU6C7IX5MCMVP · pith_short_8: WSNKU6C7

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/WSNKU6C7IX5MCMVPSRE2D4UBY4 \
  | 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: b49aaa785f45fac132af9449a1f281c72747cf4412254913dad8b0e34e9ff799

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5dda75c634866903aeadc4ea7768fc99fa68fdd5de75422917278ce5cef268a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-05T20:08:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "93a58e3fe8d3641d9c46d58b80c2cd7b9c538e99ee1e3059397212cfb8f2432b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0208101",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}