Pith Number

pith:XI34WNAW

pith:2021:XI34WNAWDOUSZRYTHSP2CLTXZY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Claimed detection of PH$_3$ in the clouds of Venus is consistent with mesospheric SO$_2$

Alex B. Akins, Andrew P. Lincowski, David Crisp, Edward W. Schwieterman, Giada N. Arney, Michael L. Wong, M. Niki Parenteau, Paul G. Steffes, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Victoria S. Meadows

arxiv:2101.09837 v1 · 2021-01-25 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XI34WNAWDOUSZRYTHSP2CLTXZY}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T02:19:45.168411Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba37cb34161ba92cc7133c9fa12e77ce3ceb7ea582a9fce4c6b3a567c3c48009

Aliases

arxiv: 2101.09837 · arxiv_version: 2101.09837v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2101.09837 · pith_short_12: XI34WNAWDOUS · pith_short_16: XI34WNAWDOUSZRYT · pith_short_8: XI34WNAW

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/XI34WNAWDOUSZRYTHSP2CLTXZY \
  | 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: ba37cb34161ba92cc7133c9fa12e77ce3ceb7ea582a9fce4c6b3a567c3c48009

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "981f2661df76a1a31962c484701c895cde29d78d40276ee64c9237a252e363c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2021-01-25T00:43:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "61da395e41964557921e294926ff8e5b3f231927067da59ac914d7aed9179034"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2101.09837",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}