Pith Number

pith:AK2ITQV6

pith:2019:AK2ITQV657MKRZ5WJPAYX5AKTP

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Astro2020 Science White Paper: Magnetic Fields and Polarization in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium

Carl Heiles, S.E. Clark, Tim Robishaw

arxiv:1903.07671 v1 · 2019-03-18 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AK2ITQV657MKRZ5WJPAYX5AKTP}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:50:54.357219Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

02b489c2beefd8a8e7b64bc18bf40a9bdc78982154e7659c13364220047a1843

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.07671 · arxiv_version: 1903.07671v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.07671 · pith_short_12: AK2ITQV657MK · pith_short_16: AK2ITQV657MKRZ5W · pith_short_8: AK2ITQV6

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/AK2ITQV657MKRZ5WJPAYX5AKTP \
  | 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: 02b489c2beefd8a8e7b64bc18bf40a9bdc78982154e7659c13364220047a1843

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "610d2be2f31d5afbffcb3811e117f680d1c06d5fe69ae6403d2f337ba7cb6f86",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-18T18:56:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7bf3c711e07055e0c9afc4799522e2cfaa7ae9db9625d63c43c271da758d73a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.07671",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}