Pith Number

pith:WZP6JFRW

pith:2011:WZP6JFRWJIDADDJKUIPQSDMYTU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An extremely luminous panchromatic outburst from the nucleus of a distant galaxy

A. Castro-Tirado, A. Cucchiara, A. de Ugarte Postigo, A. J. Levan, A. J. Romanowsky, A. J. van der Horst, A. Kamble, A. N. Morgan, A. S. Fruchter, C. Kouveliotou, C. Thoene, D. A. Perley, D. Forbes, D. I. Hoffman, D. Kocesvki, D. Poznanski, D. Xu, E. O. Ofek, E. Rol, G. Bower, G. Leloudas, J. A. Arnold, J. Ehle, J. Farihi, J. Fynbo, J. Gorosabel, J. Graham, J. Hjorth, J. M. Castro Ceron, J. M. Silverman, J. M. Winters, J. P. Brodie, J. S. Bloom, K. Misra, K. Wiersema, M. Bremer, M. C. Cooper, M. M. Kasliwal, M. Modjaz, N. Butler, N. M. Law, N. R. Tanvir, N. Singh, P. A. Curran, P. E. Nugent, P. Jakobsson, P. J. Wheatley, P. T. O'Brien, R. A. M. J. Wijers, R. G. Strom, R. L. C. Starling, R. L. Tunnicliffe, R. M. Cutri, R. M. Quimby, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, S. B. Cenko, S. Guizy, S. Schulze, T. Carroll, T. Kerr, T. Wold

arxiv:1104.3356 v1 · 2011-04-17 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WZP6JFRWJIDADDJKUIPQSDMYTU}

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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	2026-05-18T02:02:23.970849Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b65fe496364a06018d2aa21f090d989d2fe8c864ed5026b45ca12faa2bd87f85

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.3356 · arxiv_version: 1104.3356v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.3356 · pith_short_12: WZP6JFRWJIDA · pith_short_16: WZP6JFRWJIDADDJK · pith_short_8: WZP6JFRW

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/WZP6JFRWJIDADDJKUIPQSDMYTU \
  | 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: b65fe496364a06018d2aa21f090d989d2fe8c864ed5026b45ca12faa2bd87f85

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b5eea4fd1fa21a705fd637ac0997640589d1ec7f1c0cf2e443a0fc3ee1abcec0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-17T22:18:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a05bb363912ad3d627f82938033c4c818539a2146e5f92a3875ddaa47f919621"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.3356",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}