Pith Number

pith:7KNFL6HG

pith:2012:7KNFL6HGMIDA246S32TTJWZFIK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The VISTA Science Archive

Andrew Lawrence, Eckhard T. W. Sutorius, Jim P. Emerson, Keith T. Noddle, Mark S. Holliman, Mike A. Read, Nicholas J. G. Cross, Nigel C. Hambly, Robert G. Mann, Robert P. Blake, Ross S. Collins

arxiv:1210.2980 v3 · 2012-10-10 · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7KNFL6HGMIDA246S32TTJWZFIK}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T03:39:16.085141Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fa9a55f8e662060d73d2dea734db254280f365c2e319bf7311e9e93dddff67c7

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.2980 · arxiv_version: 1210.2980v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.2980 · pith_short_12: 7KNFL6HGMIDA · pith_short_16: 7KNFL6HGMIDA246S · pith_short_8: 7KNFL6HG

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/7KNFL6HGMIDA246S32TTJWZFIK \
  | 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: fa9a55f8e662060d73d2dea734db254280f365c2e319bf7311e9e93dddff67c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "35789c4d05a1cb7e3ed092fabba1a061d819bcec95fd37d5a33cb1403bef32dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-10T16:51:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf8b3cf537628d7e08a590ba46fdd4f8963cfcc73b14cd016effee08e44cf662"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.2980",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}