Pith Number

pith:XH5YDVER

pith:2026:XH5YDVEREBKLZJ7C7W46D3NFVX

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Fast Astronomical Transients in Archival Photographic Plates: Using optical aberrations as a tool for discerning real images, from plate artifacts

Ivo Busko

arxiv:2606.08319 v1 · 2026-06-06 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XH5YDVEREBKLZJ7C7W46D3NFVX}

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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	2026-06-09T01:05:33.522424Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b9fb81d4912054bca7e2fdb9e1eda5adcc939c421f4f54cc8dffe6e2eea5869d

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08319 · arxiv_version: 2606.08319v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08319 · pith_short_12: XH5YDVEREBKL · pith_short_16: XH5YDVEREBKLZJ7C · pith_short_8: XH5YDVER

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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/XH5YDVEREBKLZJ7C7W46D3NFVX \
  | 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: b9fb81d4912054bca7e2fdb9e1eda5adcc939c421f4f54cc8dffe6e2eea5869d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17241a053c5e8094a72c2706caf5ced8525b48c51a24b9c6b34c12d7f70762f7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-06T20:16:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c778ecfab70cbd6d615fbf2d91454aadd55f11ae200bbfdddd6dbb1836b8c6b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.08319",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}