Pith Number

pith:ZCDO6B7Q

pith:2012:ZCDO6B7QOSCJ6O6MPQDJFOD2GO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Implications of the cosmic infrared background excess for the cosmic star formation

Wei-Wei Tan, Yun-Wei Yu

arxiv:1206.5632 v2 · 2012-06-25 · astro-ph.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZCDO6B7QOSCJ6O6MPQDJFOD2GO}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T03:27:23.144684Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c886ef07f074849f3bcc7c0692b87a338ea2c1344aece855bf7e6088a5ad32c2

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.5632 · arxiv_version: 1206.5632v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.5632 · pith_short_12: ZCDO6B7QOSCJ · pith_short_16: ZCDO6B7QOSCJ6O6M · pith_short_8: ZCDO6B7Q

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/ZCDO6B7QOSCJ6O6MPQDJFOD2GO \
  | 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: c886ef07f074849f3bcc7c0692b87a338ea2c1344aece855bf7e6088a5ad32c2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3fbe68d0df8d1b372d77dc5b363b7493159430d2e49226d82f50e77b1d3f91e0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-25T10:01:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "69d3818dcc334428a1cd5c850aef4eeb7ae209d15892e333d4158cbeff4326a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.5632",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}