Pith Number

pith:3RN5Y65B

pith:2017:3RN5Y65B3N5SSMFPLTC5JYTZG5

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The completeness-corrected rate of stellar encounters with the Sun from the first Gaia data release

C.A.L. Bailer-Jones (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg)

arxiv:1708.08595 v1 · 2017-08-29 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3RN5Y65B3N5SSMFPLTC5JYTZG5}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:26:29.126296Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc5bdc7ba1db7b2930af5cc5d4e2793749e78cbbfea65f65c0e54199371d8888

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.08595 · arxiv_version: 1708.08595v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.08595 · pith_short_12: 3RN5Y65B3N5S · pith_short_16: 3RN5Y65B3N5SSMFP · pith_short_8: 3RN5Y65B

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3RN5Y65B3N5SSMFPLTC5JYTZG5 \
  | 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: dc5bdc7ba1db7b2930af5cc5d4e2793749e78cbbfea65f65c0e54199371d8888

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "98488afdbe89b7c5f063b8f86fc2d43117be3b99377a20b0745945d60f05c758",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-29T05:51:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "38069b8bb52f454a5e5807b89e66aa554c2f1b01cb756bc5d706c9991b42e62d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.08595",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}