Pith Number

pith:Y6OKAPZU

pith:1998:Y6OKAPZURJ5XZDWIONIQOQSYQ3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Rapid Decay of the Optical Emission from GRB 980326 and its Possible Implications

et al, Paul J. Groot, Paul M. Vreeswijk, Titus J. Galama

arxiv:astro-ph/9806070 v1 · 1998-06-04 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y6OKAPZURJ5XZDWIONIQOQSYQ3}

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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	2026-05-18T04:28:57.206588Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c79ca03f348a7b7c8ec8735107425886d52843fd8da212459a8e7cedd597a813

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9806070 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9806070v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9806070 · pith_short_12: Y6OKAPZURJ5X · pith_short_16: Y6OKAPZURJ5XZDWI · pith_short_8: Y6OKAPZU

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/Y6OKAPZURJ5XZDWIONIQOQSYQ3 \
  | 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: c79ca03f348a7b7c8ec8735107425886d52843fd8da212459a8e7cedd597a813

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d4c0e886df03c619ada306448edf4fcde35277b4324e3db11d06d6ad182e0268",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-06-04T13:40:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5586e6ad1e1c73342a5cec130ecdb914ef8cf68b695cb3e81246dbcfa88ef261"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9806070",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}