Pith Number

pith:NHT6WJLA

pith:2020:NHT6WJLAGMGT27TADKAC52NJLU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An approximation to determine the source of the WOW! Signal

Alberto Caballero

arxiv:2011.06090 v2 · 2020-11-08 · physics.pop-ph · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NHT6WJLAGMGT27TADKAC52NJLU}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T01:55:31.120643Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

69e7eb2560330d3d7e601a802ee9a95d0477170a9d0ed33c007ade5f7a1b0abd

Aliases

arxiv: 2011.06090 · arxiv_version: 2011.06090v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2011.06090 · pith_short_12: NHT6WJLAGMGT · pith_short_16: NHT6WJLAGMGT27TA · pith_short_8: NHT6WJLA

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/NHT6WJLAGMGT27TADKAC52NJLU \
  | 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: 69e7eb2560330d3d7e601a802ee9a95d0477170a9d0ed33c007ade5f7a1b0abd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e1aba4529a552badd82cd9de48ceb98a69dfdce0021b40061f407244b4ac2964",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.pop-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2020-11-08T07:31:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7e2eb99fcda195992d631377d0c04d2d579098b28bacdb70e8a995670657d71d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2011.06090",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}