Pith Number

pith:YKATVWTF

pith:2014:YKATVWTF6E4GVVG7LNCFHFGAQ6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The science case for a modern, multi-wavelength, polarization-sensitive LIDAR in orbit around Mars

Adrian J. Brown, Anthony Colaprete, Gorden Videen, Michael J. Wolff, Shane Byrne, Timothy I. Michaels, Timothy N. Titus, Wenbo Sun

arxiv:1406.0030 v1 · 2014-05-30 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YKATVWTF6E4GVVG7LNCFHFGAQ6}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:25:03.577521Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c2813ada65f1386ad4df5b445394c087b0a31d231e2ea85a59ad51533ca4ac42

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.0030 · arxiv_version: 1406.0030v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.0030 · pith_short_12: YKATVWTF6E4G · pith_short_16: YKATVWTF6E4GVVG7 · pith_short_8: YKATVWTF

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/YKATVWTF6E4GVVG7LNCFHFGAQ6 \
  | 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: c2813ada65f1386ad4df5b445394c087b0a31d231e2ea85a59ad51533ca4ac42

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "91ecca2debf50db81c16ff4d1cc564bc9faf8d4bb7a4906c8834ab3523323903",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-30T22:39:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "21509e3b4cb82552b4a8a11590b7adf2d0db2a5a3be6eef7efa238507e916a09"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.0030",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}