Pith Number

pith:5MAYS6NE

pith:2010:5MAYS6NEVYXXGLMYYQGQWQ6GAW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Variable Radio Sources in the Galactic Plane

David J. Helfand, Deanne D. Proctor, Richard L. White, Robert H. Becker

arxiv:1005.1572 v1 · 2010-05-10 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5MAYS6NEVYXXGLMYYQGQWQ6GAW}

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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	2026-05-18T02:07:34.784645Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eb018979a4ae2f732d98c40d0b43c605a94307ff50a767ad9c2b03ba12eb9073

Aliases

arxiv: 1005.1572 · arxiv_version: 1005.1572v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1005.1572 · pith_short_12: 5MAYS6NEVYXX · pith_short_16: 5MAYS6NEVYXXGLMY · pith_short_8: 5MAYS6NE

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/5MAYS6NEVYXXGLMYYQGQWQ6GAW \
  | 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: eb018979a4ae2f732d98c40d0b43c605a94307ff50a767ad9c2b03ba12eb9073

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3db399d01c5d3257f513c740369f2f3f2ce5e43cfce02828a6abd4dac186c410",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2010-05-10T15:00:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f021c065121a2492b38cd131d872351a9e5e8b023ec8e2dff91ef667462cbd39"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1005.1572",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}