Pith Number

pith:WYVALX5M

pith:2017:WYVALX5MBRBOLQB3H77LGC6IDF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Millisecond Pulsars as Standards: Timing, positioning and communication

Clement Vidal

arxiv:1711.06036 v1 · 2017-11-16 · physics.pop-ph · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WYVALX5MBRBOLQB3H77LGC6IDF}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:13:47.297638Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b62a05dfac0c42e5c03b3ffeb30bc8197b433484ed6f1a9944487cdb351060a7

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.06036 · arxiv_version: 1711.06036v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.06036 · pith_short_12: WYVALX5MBRBO · pith_short_16: WYVALX5MBRBOLQB3 · pith_short_8: WYVALX5M

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/WYVALX5MBRBOLQB3H77LGC6IDF \
  | 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: b62a05dfac0c42e5c03b3ffeb30bc8197b433484ed6f1a9944487cdb351060a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "03fed210f39c2d0c917e822556caa47655ef96b65a40f01836c07e693e255544",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.pop-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-16T11:30:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "86b3819a98462e848f08f2c7229b799aef7d487e8d43f49e404586aeefa779a7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.06036",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}