Pith Number

pith:XXE45W26

pith:2015:XXE45W26JEEOQGJDVER2YSIWLC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

ASASSN-15lh: A Highly Super-Luminous Supernova

A. B. Danilet, B. J. Shappee (Carnegie), B. Nicholls, C. S. Kochanek (Ohio State), D. Bersier, D. Grupe, D. M. Szczygiel, E. Conseil, E. Falco, F. Bufano, F. Olivares, G. Masi, G. Pignata, G. Pojmanski, G. V. Simonian, I. B. Thompson (Carnegie), J. Brimacombe, J. F. Beacom, J. L. Prieto (UDP), J. S. Brown, K. Z. Stanek (Ohio State), N. Morrell (LCO), Ping Chen, P. R. Wozniak, S. Kiyota, Subo Dong (KIAA-PKU), S. W. Jha (Rutgers), T. A. Thompson (Ohio State), T. W.-S. Holoien (Ohio State), U. Basu

arxiv:1507.03010 v3 · 2015-07-10 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XXE45W26JEEOQGJDVER2YSIWLC}

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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	2026-05-18T01:22:54.066255Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bdc9cedb5e4908e81923a923ac491658b4fec40715e36f6383e43093c34adc66

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.03010 · arxiv_version: 1507.03010v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.03010 · pith_short_12: XXE45W26JEEO · pith_short_16: XXE45W26JEEOQGJD · pith_short_8: XXE45W26

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/XXE45W26JEEOQGJDVER2YSIWLC \
  | 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: bdc9cedb5e4908e81923a923ac491658b4fec40715e36f6383e43093c34adc66

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5046e7dd2adc97aed79c62c09f11d1da4416d53a623f2ed62dee1ec33f17c717",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-10T20:00:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8b2211980f9e192c83c7fbde527dcf608b675e124302201407065ec8fa9f049"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.03010",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}