Pith Number

pith:XC3KGNFB

pith:2005:XC3KGNFBVYATS4CNB2Z43FZR32

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A contemporaneous infrared flash from a long gamma-ray burst: an echo from the central engine

A. Ghez, A. Parsons, A. Szentgyorgyi, C. B. Markwardt, C. H. Blake, C. McCabe, D. Hullinger, D. L. Starr, D. Palmer, E. E. Falco, E. E. Fenimore, F. Chaffee, G. Duchene, H. A. Krimm, J. R. Cummings, J. S. Bloom, J. Tueller, J. X. Prochaska, K. Hurley, K. McLean, K. Stapelfeldt, M. Kassis, M. Skrutskie, N. Gehrels, Q. Konopacky, R. Campbell, S. Barthelmy, S. Hornstein

arxiv:astro-ph/0503508 v1 · 2005-03-23 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{XC3KGNFBVYATS4CNB2Z43FZR32}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Early Optical Follow-up of Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Critical Role of Robotic Telescopes

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:38:06.000458Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b8b6a334a1ae0139704d0eb3cd9731de8e43e9215161b08c7833ba2e24703d43

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0503508 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0503508v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0503508 · pith_short_12: XC3KGNFBVYAT · pith_short_16: XC3KGNFBVYATS4CN · pith_short_8: XC3KGNFB

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XC3KGNFBVYATS4CNB2Z43FZR32 \
  | 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: b8b6a334a1ae0139704d0eb3cd9731de8e43e9215161b08c7833ba2e24703d43

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3c51bf3a0596b3cf7635ffd65d2664535f1909db4d9f4eb5d36e7450d9380f38",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-03-23T21:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b3331bbde8eabea3246271343b70cff89caa65cf5c8fdcb53422598251f92cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0503508",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}