Pith Number

pith:IUPR4NFW

pith:2014:IUPR4NFW375NT57U2JGYDNAUWN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

ALMA Observations of Anisotropic Dust Mass-loss in the Inner Circumstellar Environment of the Red Supergiant VY Canis Majoris

A. Baudry, A. M. S. Richards, E. De Beck, E. M. Humphreys, E. O'Gorman, G. M. Harper, L. Decin, P. Kervella, S. Muller, T. Khouri, W. Vlemmings

arxiv:1410.1622 v4 · 2014-10-07 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IUPR4NFW375NT57U2JGYDNAUWN}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:31:10.896263Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

451f1e34b6dffad9f7f4d24d81b414b363a8d9249a76e58a942258d908d5d8fd

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.1622 · arxiv_version: 1410.1622v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.1622 · pith_short_12: IUPR4NFW375N · pith_short_16: IUPR4NFW375NT57U · pith_short_8: IUPR4NFW

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/IUPR4NFW375NT57U2JGYDNAUWN \
  | 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: 451f1e34b6dffad9f7f4d24d81b414b363a8d9249a76e58a942258d908d5d8fd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "893b2b0299da45262548813fe473f9c3656a1955820fb97e3d88d58392455595",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-07T06:29:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39fd67d7087d3ade87cb2ed988f44a8cdb110a40627dc26f8d5eb81cb735f37f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.1622",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}