Pith Number

pith:XESIREBO

pith:2020:XESIREBOPMDGF74UK6XK3LT3OZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Is Betelgeuse the Outcome of a Past Merger?

Dominic C. Marcello, E. Chatzopoulos, Geoffrey C. Clayton, Juhan Frank

arxiv:2005.04172 v1 · 2020-05-08 · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XESIREBOPMDGF74UK6XK3LT3OZ}

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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	2026-07-05T01:12:46.336092Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b92488902e7b0662ff9457aeadae7b766dd42fdfb06e59f1c277b4e6ef0b8033

Aliases

arxiv: 2005.04172 · arxiv_version: 2005.04172v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2005.04172 · pith_short_12: XESIREBOPMDG · pith_short_16: XESIREBOPMDGF74U · pith_short_8: XESIREBO

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/XESIREBOPMDGF74UK6XK3LT3OZ \
  | 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: b92488902e7b0662ff9457aeadae7b766dd42fdfb06e59f1c277b4e6ef0b8033

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a90ea5b619e923830a6220a7d4550cbb65a44f7a2d077b7b42a664ee5f1763f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2020-05-08T17:15:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "576e0666b472dbbb410e08dc95a1ef6861fb32ec068196aec47c3ad6ce5c232f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2005.04172",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}