Pith Number

pith:X4MSTWFC

pith:2012:X4MSTWFCT72CFCE3FHIMBYLU6W

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Commentary on Bayesian coincidence assessment (cross-matching)

Thomas J. Loredo

arxiv:1206.4278 v1 · 2012-06-19 · astro-ph.IM · stat.AP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X4MSTWFCT72CFCE3FHIMBYLU6W}

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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	2026-05-18T03:53:07.518254Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf1929d8a29ff422889b29d0c0e174f5a8cd0486049f2760b14eb7af3538a558

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.4278 · arxiv_version: 1206.4278v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.4278 · pith_short_12: X4MSTWFCT72C · pith_short_16: X4MSTWFCT72CFCE3 · pith_short_8: X4MSTWFC

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/X4MSTWFCT72CFCE3FHIMBYLU6W \
  | 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: bf1929d8a29ff422889b29d0c0e174f5a8cd0486049f2760b14eb7af3538a558

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e2bbaa6a80857ca30e2c27345b61f396c516eda24c3012935e9ebf0b7b18aff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-19T17:48:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a5bee342573ea875d3d9836e101f2203260b3d89f8a7ad0951fd2931916aee43"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.4278",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}