Pith Number

pith:LLVTY63C

pith:1998:LLVTY63CAA4IDUPKAWRDQNWQUZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the true energy budget of GRB970508 and 981214

Abhas Mitra (Theory, BARC)

arxiv:astro-ph/9807197 v2 · 1998-07-20 · astro-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LLVTY63CAA4IDUPKAWRDQNWQUZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:22:40.646432Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5aeb3c7b62003881d1ea05a23836d0a6483f2acd072bc5fce92d94155ea99ad2

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9807197 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9807197v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9807197 · pith_short_12: LLVTY63CAA4I · pith_short_16: LLVTY63CAA4IDUPK · pith_short_8: LLVTY63C

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/LLVTY63CAA4IDUPKAWRDQNWQUZ \
  | 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: 5aeb3c7b62003881d1ea05a23836d0a6483f2acd072bc5fce92d94155ea99ad2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "daae333bbf45b3284146d9e5c9adba5aa776c268274b0778f8038b1c25b6eb14",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-07-20T10:18:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "00f84a235a4da74dce93c15ead2a02bd1d295fbc92bf360929a5dbfa5e5dd163"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9807197",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}