Pith Number

pith:3HVX43M3

pith:2017:3HVX43M3AOZKZXGRRDTMXQI23M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Hubble Space Telescope survey for novae in M87. III. Are novae good standard candles 15 days after maximum brightness?

Ariel Goerl, Ashley Pagnotta, Attay Kovetz, David Zurek, Dina Prialnik, Doug L. Welch, Edward A. Baltz, James T. Garland, J. D. Neill, Joanna Mikolajewska, Juan Madrid, Michael M. Shara, Ofer Yaron, Tamara Machac, Tod R. Lauer, Trisha F. Doyle

arxiv:1702.06988 v3 · 2017-02-22 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3HVX43M3AOZKZXGRRDTMXQI23M}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:13.707570Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d9eb7e6d9b03b2acdcd188e6cbc11adb3d137d3a85074350626ab14f4f6b944a

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.06988 · arxiv_version: 1702.06988v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.06988 · pith_short_12: 3HVX43M3AOZK · pith_short_16: 3HVX43M3AOZKZXGR · pith_short_8: 3HVX43M3

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/3HVX43M3AOZKZXGRRDTMXQI23M \
  | 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: d9eb7e6d9b03b2acdcd188e6cbc11adb3d137d3a85074350626ab14f4f6b944a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8fa7bf0d905fff43ac0c3ba5a3c509cd8d91b93b64f7993c653e224e8435bdd7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-22T20:01:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1303fd7e7c779b2a933395240eb3b9677389633468bfdc715fff3a49a4556676"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.06988",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}