Pith Number

pith:HKF3Q6EE

pith:2006:HKF3Q6EETOUS6WP4DLKMURBBTX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Swift Observations of GRB 050603: An afterglow with a steep late time decay slope

Alon Retter (PSU), Bing Zhang (U. Nevada), Claudio Pagani (PSU), David N. Burrows (PSU), Dirk Grupe (PSU), Jamie A. Kennea (PSU), Jay Cummings (GSFC), John A. Nousek (PSU), Judith L. Racusin (PSU), Julian Osborne (U. Leicester), Milvia Capalbi (ASDC), Neil Gehrels (GSFC), Patricia Schady (MSSL, Patricia T. Boyd (GSFC), Paul O'Brien (U. Leicester), Peter Brown (PSU), Peter Meszaros (PSU), Peter Roming (PSU), PSU), Stephen T. Holland (GSFC)

arxiv:astro-ph/0603426 v2 · 2006-03-16 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HKF3Q6EETOUS6WP4DLKMURBBTX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:25.512295Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3a8bb878849ba92f59fc1ad4ca44219de2d54b8846fb49f20aab590b38220876

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0603426 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0603426v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0603426 · pith_short_12: HKF3Q6EETOUS · pith_short_16: HKF3Q6EETOUS6WP4 · pith_short_8: HKF3Q6EE

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/HKF3Q6EETOUS6WP4DLKMURBBTX \
  | 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: 3a8bb878849ba92f59fc1ad4ca44219de2d54b8846fb49f20aab590b38220876

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2bd4381f372d42fb6a142ccee4697738e60dc565c6674d359824058038676cc0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-03-16T15:27:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "edd563ab0c4164a366461b10ab2cc47530d22ea8aa312802a3c91f7843badd6f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0603426",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}