Pith Number

pith:X3WGHVUT

pith:2005:X3WGHVUTB5FZXZBBHTJUSNRZKF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery of the Binary Pulsar PSR B1259-63 in Very-High-Energy Gamma Rays around Periastron with H.E.S.S

et al, F. Aharonian

arxiv:astro-ph/0506280 v2 · 2005-06-13 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X3WGHVUTB5FZXZBBHTJUSNRZKF}

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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	2026-07-04T16:52:32.835561Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

beec63d6930f4b9be4213cd3493639517625f55aa36412d65f4067d4901b966c

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0506280 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0506280v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0506280 · pith_short_12: X3WGHVUTB5FZ · pith_short_16: X3WGHVUTB5FZXZBB · pith_short_8: X3WGHVUT

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/X3WGHVUTB5FZXZBBHTJUSNRZKF \
  | 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: beec63d6930f4b9be4213cd3493639517625f55aa36412d65f4067d4901b966c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2bb13efe33fe46f2ffb0f0e11d0c0b403213330d3c4fb155fb6f04a248dcb03e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-06-13T19:04:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e937b04cbfe6dd1feb6da10087c741835c5c8fc7f60569f23d61cf76f407fbd0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0506280",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}