Pith Number

pith:ICIDQ6JS

pith:2014:ICIDQ6JSJUKEY3V7CZYHLFIIQQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

ALMA sub-mm maser and dust distribution of VY Canis Majoris

A. Baudry, A. B. Peck, A. M. Sobolev, A. M. S. Richards, A. Wootten, A. Zijlstra, C. M. V. Impellizzeri, C. Vlahakis, D. Neufeld, E. De Beck, E. M. Humphreys, E. O'Gorman, F. Kerschbaum, G. Melnick, G. M. Harper, H. Shinnaga, I. McDonald, J. A. Yates, L. Decin, L. Testi, L. Uscanga, M. D. Gray, P. Kervella, S. Etoka, S. Muller, S. Yu. Parfenov, T. R. Hunter, W. Vlemmings

arxiv:1409.5497 v2 · 2014-09-19 · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{ICIDQ6JSJUKEY3V7CZYHLFIIQQ}

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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	2026-05-18T02:32:21.785903Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40903879324d144c6ebf1670759508841c52eab5b6b78b6fea0b646110c5af7c

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.5497 · arxiv_version: 1409.5497v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.5497 · pith_short_12: ICIDQ6JSJUKE · pith_short_16: ICIDQ6JSJUKEY3V7 · pith_short_8: ICIDQ6JS

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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/ICIDQ6JSJUKEY3V7CZYHLFIIQQ \
  | 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: 40903879324d144c6ebf1670759508841c52eab5b6b78b6fea0b646110c5af7c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c53913e0e2a1af7647981b88e9283d5ffab0985d857f55c64b0f898534f4c7a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-19T01:07:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48c3437ed606d363cc79e7d5f70e57dc3035e722500319f427af8dba961db479"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.5497",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}