Pith Number

pith:Y5ZR5SSK

pith:2018:Y5ZR5SSKSLINKN4OJUD5KNIC7W

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The KIC 8462852 Light Curve From 2015.75 to 2018.18 Shows a Variable Secular Decline

Arto Oksanen, Barbara G. Harris, Bradley E. Schaefer, Emery Erdelyi, Franky Dubois, Grant Kennedy, John E. Hall, John J. Ott, Katherine M. Nugent, Keith Graham, Ludwig Logie, Mark Wyatt, Phillip H. Coker, Rik van Lieshout, Robert James, Rory O. Bentley, Shawn Dvorak, Siegfried Vanaverbeke, Steve J. Johnston, Steve Rau, Tabetha S. Boyajian, Tyler Ellis

arxiv:1806.09911 v1 · 2018-06-26 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y5ZR5SSKSLINKN4OJUD5KNIC7W}

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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	2026-05-18T00:11:04.236382Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c7731eca4a92d0d5378e4d07d53502fdba8a2819069ca0ebbe9140a22515c73a

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.09911 · arxiv_version: 1806.09911v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.09911 · pith_short_12: Y5ZR5SSKSLIN · pith_short_16: Y5ZR5SSKSLINKN4O · pith_short_8: Y5ZR5SSK

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/Y5ZR5SSKSLINKN4OJUD5KNIC7W \
  | 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: c7731eca4a92d0d5378e4d07d53502fdba8a2819069ca0ebbe9140a22515c73a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "984c099df5cfacbb686a6f0b3ffdd0f72119d686e08ebc35d007dad04818d597",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-26T11:16:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "081b612de760135f8f5c8c46ba9fba614cff2db069a53c30677a7588acffee40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.09911",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}