Pith Number

pith:5KV3XZ2Q

pith:2016:5KV3XZ2QQ7YQMGRISQTUXFMAQ3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Extracting Information from AGN Variability

Gordon T. Richards, Michael S. Vogeley, Vishal P. Kasliwal

arxiv:1607.04299 v2 · 2016-07-14 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5KV3XZ2QQ7YQMGRISQTUXFMAQ3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:39:40.349877Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eaabbbe75087f1061a2894274b958086ec73bb39cc6abc7c14c117988c52c328

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.04299 · arxiv_version: 1607.04299v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.04299 · pith_short_12: 5KV3XZ2QQ7YQ · pith_short_16: 5KV3XZ2QQ7YQMGRI · pith_short_8: 5KV3XZ2Q

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/5KV3XZ2QQ7YQMGRISQTUXFMAQ3 \
  | 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: eaabbbe75087f1061a2894274b958086ec73bb39cc6abc7c14c117988c52c328

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d9605564dc4a65487d4a5e354370e62c924e9d61da6d9a1cc119dd0fecc0321",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-14T20:11:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e361160bef856f4f99ff2b1304b215f8175711d40b61bd86ef8a164b5da691a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.04299",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}