Pith Number

pith:3MR5UV3N

pith:1997:3MR5UV3NERCPD4EL5STOGDRZG7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

BATSE Sky Exposure

(2) NASA/MSFC, (3) University of Alabama in Huntsville, (4) Teledyne Brown, (5) USRA at NASA/MSFC, (6) Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Charles A. Meegan (2), Geoffrey N. Pendleton (3), Jefferson M. Kommers (6), Jon Hakkila (1), Michael McCollough (5), Michael S. Briggs (3) ((1) Mankato State University, William Henze (4)

arxiv:astro-ph/9712091 v1 · 1997-12-05 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3MR5UV3NERCPD4EL5STOGDRZG7}

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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	2026-07-04T16:03:31.210004Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db23da576d2444f1f08beca6e30e3937edb56b181a6de3785047c2baf801c888

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9712091 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9712091v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9712091 · pith_short_12: 3MR5UV3NERCP · pith_short_16: 3MR5UV3NERCPD4EL · pith_short_8: 3MR5UV3N

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/3MR5UV3NERCPD4EL5STOGDRZG7 \
  | 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: db23da576d2444f1f08beca6e30e3937edb56b181a6de3785047c2baf801c888

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b011b48084423fe5cfaf21571ce9677ec2d04dff9323fa121676c3fa3da7b82",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-05T19:45:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e21b210158eb6d6dbc7fe3c3166c7ce25997a28cb3398e6a69dc810298ac64b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9712091",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}