Pith Number

pith:XJCTWX5L

pith:2014:XJCTWX5LQGVLX5YXHJZP3WWBSC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dark Ages Radio Explorer Mission: Probing the Cosmic Dawn

Dayton L. Jones, Jack O. Burns, T. Joseph W. Lazio

arxiv:1412.2096 v1 · 2014-12-05 · astro-ph.IM

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XJCTWX5LQGVLX5YXHJZP3WWBSC}

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:36.413798Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba453b5fab81aabbf7173a72fddac190a8ca0e25598803d5cbb2ac5d1a1a60a8

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.2096 · arxiv_version: 1412.2096v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.2096 · pith_short_12: XJCTWX5LQGVL · pith_short_16: XJCTWX5LQGVLX5YX · pith_short_8: XJCTWX5L

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/XJCTWX5LQGVLX5YXHJZP3WWBSC \
  | 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: ba453b5fab81aabbf7173a72fddac190a8ca0e25598803d5cbb2ac5d1a1a60a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d4dab505d4fdabf31d8e3421b57861d08d329c7aca0a75ba97be79e19dfdf6df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-05T18:38:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "202e16ace59922e824bae9c2220cbb0469eb4fcfd7568432d02e5e3e4395f69b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.2096",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}