Pith Number

pith:Y6ZVLZ7Q

pith:2017:Y6ZVLZ7QUKQSFS3XWJY4B4YPF2

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The Destruction of an Oort Cloud in a rich stellar cluster

Bengt Gustafsson, Hans Rickman, Thomas Nordlander

arxiv:1704.03341 v1 · 2017-04-11 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y6ZVLZ7QUKQSFS3XWJY4B4YPF2}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:40:06.323701Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c7b355e7f0a2a122cb77b271c0f30f2eabd0e5712a0a41b5a4f584c3bc5181e4

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.03341 · arxiv_version: 1704.03341v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.03341 · pith_short_12: Y6ZVLZ7QUKQS · pith_short_16: Y6ZVLZ7QUKQSFS3X · pith_short_8: Y6ZVLZ7Q

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/Y6ZVLZ7QUKQSFS3XWJY4B4YPF2 \
  | 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: c7b355e7f0a2a122cb77b271c0f30f2eabd0e5712a0a41b5a4f584c3bc5181e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cffa07c2c61a16e13d70d4876e8ea2a06a3a22c928273338d343ab73377de369",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-11T15:04:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a0606ad4acf7dcf664c8e8e3340952b87c096c10990dac5930b9f88c54bc1010"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.03341",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}