Pith Number

pith:XFVXKFX4

pith:1997:XFVXKFX4VEJB3SIAWJ4KHK3ZUX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Status of Nova Orionis 1667

F. A. Ringwald (Penn State), T. Naylor (Keele)

arxiv:astro-ph/9706273 v1 · 1997-06-27 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XFVXKFX4VEJB3SIAWJ4KHK3ZUX}

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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	2026-05-18T04:21:40.403774Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b96b7516fca9121dc900b278a3ab79a5ece3eeb17dd509b9d68f8261dd8b3f88

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9706273 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9706273v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9706273 · pith_short_12: XFVXKFX4VEJB · pith_short_16: XFVXKFX4VEJB3SIA · pith_short_8: XFVXKFX4

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/XFVXKFX4VEJB3SIAWJ4KHK3ZUX \
  | 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: b96b7516fca9121dc900b278a3ab79a5ece3eeb17dd509b9d68f8261dd8b3f88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d6f52c640fa4be4bd0b06a4d47eeb86729a25013e0639a69062ed31b776b869",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-06-27T03:46:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b11c1ecab8df742db3cb199cada82f5f228e8e015f4b0a17b4a98dd1fbca518a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9706273",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}