Pith Number

pith:YQGZTCXV

pith:2024:YQGZTCXVHZD2KJYJAO6F5PUMO2

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On the nature of apparent transient sources on the National Geographic Society-Palomar Observatory Sky Survey glass copy plates

Adam Blair, Nigel Hambly

arxiv:2402.00497 v1 · 2024-02-01 · astro-ph.IM

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Fast Astronomical Transients in Archival Photographic Plates: Using optical aberrations as a tool for discerning real images, from plate artifacts

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First computed	2026-07-05T07:59:21.357656Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c40d998af53e47a5270903bc5ebe8c76b26d2db0bbdc5fe90203bf8a5172d241

Aliases

arxiv: 2402.00497 · arxiv_version: 2402.00497v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2402.00497 · pith_short_12: YQGZTCXVHZD2 · pith_short_16: YQGZTCXVHZD2KJYJ · pith_short_8: YQGZTCXV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YQGZTCXVHZD2KJYJAO6F5PUMO2 \
  | 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: c40d998af53e47a5270903bc5ebe8c76b26d2db0bbdc5fe90203bf8a5172d241

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9aad95ba46e7dd82b722ffd5e2e29e03b7091fc50e9935156a390688f9c05231",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2024-02-01T11:06:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0fcd4b260768140ce1d86ed466e87faf1f30db4b1b7bcc2754ab0b01a63efe79"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2402.00497",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}