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pith:5VCF47SM

pith:2009:5VCF47SMHOEMYJYQA6TMBUWDZK
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Exploring the Optical Transient Sky with the Palomar Transient Factory

10), (10) LCOGT, (11) Oxford), 2), (2) Caltech, (3) UC Berkeley, (4) Pennstate, (5) Weizman, (6) LBLN, (7) AMNH, (8) UC Santa Barbara, (9) Columbia, Alexei V. Filippenko (3), Andrew J. Drake (2), Arne Rau (1, Avishay Gal-Yam (5), Carl C. Grillmair (2), D. Andrew Howell (8, David Ciardi (2), David J. Helfand (9), Derek B. Fox (4), Dovi Poznanski (3), Eran O. Ofek (2), George Helou (2), George S. Djorgovski (2), Joshua S. Bloom (3), Lars Bildsten (8), Mansi M. Kasliwal (2), Mark Sullivan (11) ((1) MPE, Michael Shara (7), Nicholas M. Law (2), Peter E. Nugent (6), Robert M. Quimby (2), S. Bradley Cenko (3), Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (2), William T. Reach (2)

arxiv:0906.5355 v1 · 2009-06-29 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA

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First computed 2026-05-18T04:32:34.832192Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed445e7e4c3b88cc271007a6c0d2c3caa4ee8e90c314c8c0abe0ede65d1626ee

Aliases

arxiv: 0906.5355 · arxiv_version: 0906.5355v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0906.5355 · pith_short_12: 5VCF47SMHOEM · pith_short_16: 5VCF47SMHOEMYJYQ · pith_short_8: 5VCF47SM
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5VCF47SMHOEMYJYQA6TMBUWDZK \
  | 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: ed445e7e4c3b88cc271007a6c0d2c3caa4ee8e90c314c8c0abe0ede65d1626ee
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97e4afc9b170a6137846b640322f8a931f15441dac1e8500a70e5790ace7169d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2009-06-29T20:02:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f7591014016b3df20d6089df50e92edb0b78955f2fd3411f11e42e4f7325fdc8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0906.5355",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}