Pith Number

pith:NJ5JOQLQ

pith:2016:NJ5JOQLQJI5OARM2YPNSYFTCHV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cosmic Sculpture: A new way to visualise the Cosmic Microwave Background

A. Portela Fonseca, D. L. Clements, S. Sato

arxiv:1610.00501 v1 · 2016-10-03 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NJ5JOQLQJI5OARM2YPNSYFTCHV}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:57:25.721233Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a7a9741704a3ae0459ac3db2c16623d6b89065203eddffabfbd7d1e3eae5fca

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.00501 · arxiv_version: 1610.00501v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.00501 · pith_short_12: NJ5JOQLQJI5O · pith_short_16: NJ5JOQLQJI5OARM2 · pith_short_8: NJ5JOQLQ

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/NJ5JOQLQJI5OARM2YPNSYFTCHV \
  | 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: 6a7a9741704a3ae0459ac3db2c16623d6b89065203eddffabfbd7d1e3eae5fca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "646f233cb1a127475ca66167527285d2cf9948ec2ac5a4d9fdc7b7b6eff535b4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-03T11:29:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a91446802731be318308dfe9c780a5bb0308fb6aefa6b3adcaf81ce6f46e6c75"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.00501",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}