Pith Number

pith:ZK5CBIK7

pith:1999:ZK5CBIK7OEOGUSQKU4EW32IHTA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Radio Afterglow and the Host Galaxy of the X-Ray Rich GRB 981226

D. A. Frail (NRAO), E. Costa (IAS/CNR), F. Frontera (ITESRE/CNR, F. H. Chaffee, J. Meltzer, J. S. Bloom, R. R. Gal, R. Sari (Caltech), R. W. Goodrich (CARA), S. G. Djorgovski, S. R. Kulkarni, Univ. of Ferrara), V. Gorjian

arxiv:astro-ph/9909407 v1 · 1999-09-23 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZK5CBIK7OEOGUSQKU4EW32IHTA}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T16:11:38.873946Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

caba20a15f711c6a4a0aa7096de907980b51ee22f4a93a0d40ab4f77c76b2c10

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9909407 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9909407v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9909407 · pith_short_12: ZK5CBIK7OEOG · pith_short_16: ZK5CBIK7OEOGUSQK · pith_short_8: ZK5CBIK7

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/ZK5CBIK7OEOGUSQKU4EW32IHTA \
  | 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: caba20a15f711c6a4a0aa7096de907980b51ee22f4a93a0d40ab4f77c76b2c10

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "401d3635f8a3ab018b6cb6590d2cdb18658d2ffba9e82f5e8b39eac8fb55f27f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-09-23T22:01:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f380e4f0fc145897920b0058def5768a09ef128d6accafe057acf2468bf7b8b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9909407",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}