Pith Number

pith:WTAZOIH6

pith:2025:WTAZOIH6SBEYDVBBOTLSZVWT4Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

JWST detection of a carbon dioxide dominated gas coma surrounding interstellar object 3I/ATLAS

Cristina A. Thomas, Cyrielle Opitom, Davide Farnocchia, Dennis Bodewits, Marco Micheli, Maria N. Drozdovskaya, Martin A. Cordiner, Megan E. Schwamb, Michael S. P. Kelley, Nathaniel X. Roth, Stefanie N. Milam, Stefano Bagnulo, Steven B. Charnley

arxiv:2508.18209 v3 · 2025-08-25 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{WTAZOIH6SBEYDVBBOTLSZVWT4Q}

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1 paper in Pith

A Physical Model for the Ice Coma of the Interstellar, Hyperactive Comet 3I/ATLAS

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:08:07.031544Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4c19720fe904981d42174d72cd6d3e414504c992604046fb709f009ed6b770d

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.18209 · arxiv_version: 2508.18209v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.18209 · pith_short_12: WTAZOIH6SBEY · pith_short_16: WTAZOIH6SBEYDVBB · pith_short_8: WTAZOIH6

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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/WTAZOIH6SBEYDVBBOTLSZVWT4Q \
  | 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: b4c19720fe904981d42174d72cd6d3e414504c992604046fb709f009ed6b770d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cb11c05b6b06440911f19fc169423ea23900a15f0c079e703b84c13b9b65f67e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-25T17:10:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4bd4c3774d8149e63a338ac40f263c0de7621f8687dbf83b1b4d3e90740d672"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.18209",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}