Pith Number

pith:BVFJMB6M

pith:2016:BVFJMB6MAPSSDQHZB6KPBQX4V5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Dark Energy Camera Search for an Optical Counterpart to the First Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW150914

A. A. Plazas, A. Benoit-L\'evy, A. Carnero Rosell, A. Drlica-Wagner, A. E. Evrard, A. K. Romer, A. Rest, A. Roodman, A. R. Walker, A. Stebbins, B. D. Metzger, B. Farr, B. Flaugher, B. Nord, B. Yanny, C. B. D'Andrea, C. J. Miller, C. L. Fryer, D. A. Brown, D. A. Finley, D. A. Goldstein, D. B. Fox, D. Brout, D. Capozzi, D. Gruen, D. Holz, D. J. James, D. Kasen, D. L. Burke, D. L. Tucker, D. Scolnic, D. W. Gerdes, E. Berger, E. Bertin, E. Buckley-Geer, E. Fernandez, E. Gaztanaga, E. Neilsen, E. Quataert, E. Sanchez, E. Sheldon, E. S. Rykoff, F. B. Abdalla, F. J. Castander, F. Sobreira, G. Gutierrez, G. Tarle, H. Chen, H. Lin, H. T. Diehl, I. Karliner, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, J. Annis, J. Carretero, J. Estrada, J. Fischer, J. Frieman, J. Garcia-Bellido, J. J. Mohr, J. Marriner, J. P. Dietrich, J. Peoples, J. Thaler, J. Weller, K. Herner, K. Honscheid, K. Kuehn, L. N. da Costa, M. A. G. Maia, M. Banerji, M. Carrasco Kind, M. Crocce, M. E. C. Swanson, M. Lima, M. R. Drout, M. Sako, M. Schubnell, M. Smith, M. Soares-Santos, N. Kuropatkin, N. Smith, O. Lahav, P. Fosalba, P. J. Sutton, P. Martini, P. S. Cowperthwaite, R. A. Bernstein, R. A. Gruendl, R. Armstrong, R. Chornock, R. C. Nichol, R. C. Smith, R. C. Thomas, R. G. McMahon, R. H. Wechsler, R. J. Foley, R. Kessler, R. Margutti, R. Miquel, R. Ogando, R. Schindler, S. Allam, S. B. Cenko, S. Desai, S. Fairhurst, S. Kent, T. F. Eifler, T. Matheson, T. M. C. Abbott, T. S. Li, V. Scarpine, V. Vikram, W. Fong, W. Wester, Z. Doctor

arxiv:1602.04198 v2 · 2016-02-12 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BVFJMB6MAPSSDQHZB6KPBQX4V5}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:12:48.956642Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d4a9607cc03e521c0f90f94f0c2fcaf40094390fe2171fec93813249824c22e

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.04198 · arxiv_version: 1602.04198v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.04198 · pith_short_12: BVFJMB6MAPSS · pith_short_16: BVFJMB6MAPSSDQHZ · pith_short_8: BVFJMB6M

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BVFJMB6MAPSSDQHZB6KPBQX4V5 \
  | 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: 0d4a9607cc03e521c0f90f94f0c2fcaf40094390fe2171fec93813249824c22e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44ee412d7de291aa7e5fbcb9bf91bda9f0f09663a207da6bd63113bb35aeaed5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-12T20:38:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e37ed0d521dbdac00dc904669987e1a129824208e2b6834b0e5140749a6d7eac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.04198",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}