Pith Number

pith:XH64YJ6S

pith:2017:XH64YJ6S6NU6J4XCSNKE5VUUSX

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Inferring probabilistic stellar rotation periods using Gaussian processes

Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Ruth Angus, Suzanne Aigrain, Timothy Morton, Vinesh Rajpaul

arxiv:1706.05459 v2 · 2017-06-17 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XH64YJ6S6NU6J4XCSNKE5VUUSX}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:27:21.293371Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b9fdcc27d2f369e4f2e293544ed69495f941383395cc45d3fc3e75b04ce5617c

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.05459 · arxiv_version: 1706.05459v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.05459 · pith_short_12: XH64YJ6S6NU6 · pith_short_16: XH64YJ6S6NU6J4XC · pith_short_8: XH64YJ6S

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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/XH64YJ6S6NU6J4XCSNKE5VUUSX \
  | 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: b9fdcc27d2f369e4f2e293544ed69495f941383395cc45d3fc3e75b04ce5617c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a7ba13ce6c07bb95eebae1eaa625eda13beab9ec944131da09292a1728853a16",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-17T00:24:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b6a07d96d628061bb448801694b30fc022065804b378c5a08c69534608d642f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.05459",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}