Pith Number

pith:3JZTQI44

pith:2017:3JZTQI4464FC2RQGX6HDIE5AK2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Mote in Andromeda's Disk: a Misidentified Periodic AGN Behind M31

Emily M. Levesque, John J. Ruan, Trevor Dorn-Wallenstein

arxiv:1704.08694 v2 · 2017-04-27 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3JZTQI4464FC2RQGX6HDIE5AK2}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:28:55.861664Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da7338239cf70a2d4606bf8e3413a056acdf1da08e74f91b06880a961dd15fd2

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.08694 · arxiv_version: 1704.08694v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.08694 · pith_short_12: 3JZTQI4464FC · pith_short_16: 3JZTQI4464FC2RQG · pith_short_8: 3JZTQI44

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3JZTQI4464FC2RQGX6HDIE5AK2 \
  | 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: da7338239cf70a2d4606bf8e3413a056acdf1da08e74f91b06880a961dd15fd2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "467294db38b4136fc7223b41b9da8efc7f88824059ddb2fb89f7b65d2eb546d4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-27T18:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b7c92cbc46716f0093516826dc7e4d41b37cc66126f50ea74e585b0ee706a5d2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.08694",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}