Pith Number

pith:IUQD6CDK

pith:2019:IUQD6CDKHW3FNA6L5BOIGM6CNU

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Astro2020 Science White Paper: Discovery Frontiers of Explosive Transients - An ELT & LSST Perspective

Adriano Baldeschi, Armin Rest, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Chien-Hsiu Lee, Danny Milisavljevic, Deanne Coppejans, Gautham Narayan, G. Grant Williams, Giacomo Terreran, J. Craig Wheeler, Jeonghee Rho, Melissa L. Graham, Nathan Smith, Niharika Sravan, Philip Cowperthwaite, Raffaella Margutti, Ryan Chornock, Sumner Starrfield, Sung-Chul Yoon, V. Zach Golkhou

arxiv:1904.05957 v1 · 2019-04-11 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IUQD6CDKHW3FNA6L5BOIGM6CNU}

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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	2026-05-17T23:48:44.650304Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45203f086a3db65683cbe85c8333c26d369e2938f7f13f0fc42b5c4f6f36bd10

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.05957 · arxiv_version: 1904.05957v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.05957 · pith_short_12: IUQD6CDKHW3F · pith_short_16: IUQD6CDKHW3FNA6L · pith_short_8: IUQD6CDK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IUQD6CDKHW3FNA6L5BOIGM6CNU \
  | 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: 45203f086a3db65683cbe85c8333c26d369e2938f7f13f0fc42b5c4f6f36bd10

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "faa4b7e52f1a4d6a0cd4823dbd5945757e879ea450c904912e9a5b917d68c6c0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-11T21:25:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ddd89dccfbf153c2944193cf9bcdbec2fef32704b8f21bdb1ee61601d3358067"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.05957",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}