Pith Number

pith:ZXWGWVF6

pith:1997:ZXWGWVF623LN3K3B7MWJIEOOHL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The soft X-ray afterglow of gamma ray bursts, a stringent test for the fireball model

Mario Vietri

arxiv:astro-ph/9701024 v2 · 1997-01-07 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZXWGWVF623LN3K3B7MWJIEOOHL}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:40.333864Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cdec6b54bed6d6ddab61fb2c9411ce3ad66dff5d60bf8d52ee0c91cfdb7d5b40

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9701024 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9701024v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9701024 · pith_short_12: ZXWGWVF623LN · pith_short_16: ZXWGWVF623LN3K3B · pith_short_8: ZXWGWVF6

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/ZXWGWVF623LN3K3B7MWJIEOOHL \
  | 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: cdec6b54bed6d6ddab61fb2c9411ce3ad66dff5d60bf8d52ee0c91cfdb7d5b40

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8f99bad0b96f12e851c8eb16d8e4bdccb90e8d846f9b737fc6465e66b59ab51",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-01-07T12:00:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a84f66b3507d56bf522f9d35ff760087ea5a87238a4d2b015a3c8aa3829744a7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9701024",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}