Pith Number

pith:ZTQPFLF7

pith:2012:ZTQPFLF7SI24MCODRTIUKMCZOM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Connecting the time domain community with the Virtual Astronomical Observatory

Andrew J. Drake, Ashish A. Mahabal, Ciro Donalek, Jeffrey Kantor, John C. Good, Matthew J. Graham, Raymond L. Plante, S. G. Djorgovski

arxiv:1206.4035 v1 · 2012-06-18 · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZTQPFLF7SI24MCODRTIUKMCZOM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:56:51.415220Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cce0f2acbf9235c609c38cd145305973189ea780a74fe50bf6c7ef22290a4316

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.4035 · arxiv_version: 1206.4035v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.4035 · pith_short_12: ZTQPFLF7SI24 · pith_short_16: ZTQPFLF7SI24MCOD · pith_short_8: ZTQPFLF7

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/ZTQPFLF7SI24MCODRTIUKMCZOM \
  | 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: cce0f2acbf9235c609c38cd145305973189ea780a74fe50bf6c7ef22290a4316

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a99b61bbb33796ebca48f5378c9a3f20af173190b839060dd2505c1bbd45f2b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-18T19:46:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "70517a7c7b89d5509a749e01d4a7fab854a599f8f8aae84009430a286d689a80"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.4035",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}