Pith Number

pith:WY5ZX72P

pith:2012:WY5ZX72PS4JFVZVECCIES2LGSM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Multiwavelength Variations of 3C 454.3 during the November 2010 to January 2011 Outburst

Alan P. Marscher, Ann E. Wehrle, Dirk Grupe, Ivan Agudo, Karen E. Williamson, Manasvita Joshi, Mark A. Gurwell, Nicholas R. MacDonald, Svetlana G. Jorstad

arxiv:1208.4564 v1 · 2012-08-22 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WY5ZX72PS4JFVZVECCIES2LGSM}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:54:59.496781Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b63b9bff4f97125ae6a4109049696693104933319fbe74faea12d84300eb7b6f

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.4564 · arxiv_version: 1208.4564v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.4564 · pith_short_12: WY5ZX72PS4JF · pith_short_16: WY5ZX72PS4JFVZVE · pith_short_8: WY5ZX72P

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/WY5ZX72PS4JFVZVECCIES2LGSM \
  | 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: b63b9bff4f97125ae6a4109049696693104933319fbe74faea12d84300eb7b6f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dab6826f188fb1402848ecac62b595b0d90d1ed26b7308a2982a6f1e5b124771",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-22T17:20:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "77ad2ea97d2de068018ed7cddc50b5a1fea46cd9506b4652dafdec3e54e8a979"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.4564",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}