Pith Number

pith:A4ODVX7K

pith:2023:A4ODVX7KSJKL6LZMVJZB42H4G7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Persistent Mystery of Collisionless Shocks

Alessandro Retino, Amir Caspi, Drew Turner, Ferdinand Plaschke, George Hospodarsky, Ian Cohen, Imogen Gingell, James Burch, Jasper Halekas, Katherine Goodrich, Keith Smith, Li-Jen Chen, Lynn Wilson III, Phyllis Whittlesey, Randall Rose, Steven Schwartz, Yuri Khotyaintsev

arxiv:2306.05491 v1 · 2023-06-08 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR · physics.plasm-ph · physics.space-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A4ODVX7KSJKL6LZMVJZB42H4G7}

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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	2026-07-05T06:48:08.749782Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

071c3adfea9254bf2f2caa721e68fc37de7b0f77232cc42fdd4fe31f51d95ec2

Aliases

arxiv: 2306.05491 · arxiv_version: 2306.05491v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.05491 · pith_short_12: A4ODVX7KSJKL · pith_short_16: A4ODVX7KSJKL6LZM · pith_short_8: A4ODVX7K

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/A4ODVX7KSJKL6LZMVJZB42H4G7 \
  | 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: 071c3adfea9254bf2f2caa721e68fc37de7b0f77232cc42fdd4fe31f51d95ec2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1805d64394f09c2630f9ec1c345c7dc0f0d31af97ec8f1d570bf44d16b25e86",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "astro-ph.SR",
      "physics.plasm-ph",
      "physics.space-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2023-06-08T18:25:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f6fd57b133ff5783d5c3b4a2a252ee8aa6cce12e90e2ea68e47c070549865d13"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2306.05491",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}