Pith Number

pith:ZXUGQFG5

pith:2016:ZXUGQFG5AMCBA6TBJUGVYVFNZA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Large Fluctuations in the High-Redshift Metagalactic Ionizing Background

Anson D'Aloisio, Frederick B. Davies, Matthew McQuinn, Steven R. Furlanetto

arxiv:1611.02711 v2 · 2016-11-08 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZXUGQFG5AMCBA6TBJUGVYVFNZA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:22:40.224853Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cde86814dd0304107a614d0d5c54adc835ed4e65e69cd43df63518a27eb13a77

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.02711 · arxiv_version: 1611.02711v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.02711 · pith_short_12: ZXUGQFG5AMCB · pith_short_16: ZXUGQFG5AMCBA6TB · pith_short_8: ZXUGQFG5

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/ZXUGQFG5AMCBA6TBJUGVYVFNZA \
  | 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: cde86814dd0304107a614d0d5c54adc835ed4e65e69cd43df63518a27eb13a77

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "daad1f48211ed3a6ce55d450209edee3b5a172b81f13523cad2705b926c2fb1f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-08T21:00:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c0f93e65716246d754b582bf8bd2c7b7882f5ee977e331f80ddeff780186cbc0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.02711",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}