Pith Number

pith:NOO3JUXE

pith:2026:NOO3JUXELCEUNEL3ZJPDHTXVPM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

AT2021yky: A Fast-Rising Optical Transient with Evolving Broad Hydrogen Emission Consistent with an Ambiguous Nuclear Transient

Aaron Do, Anna V. Payne, Benjamin J. Shappee, C. Ashall, Christopher Kochanek, Daniel R. Wilkins, Dhvanil D. Desai, Jason T. Hinkle, Katie Auchettl, Mark T. Reynolds, M. E. Huber, Michael A. Tucker, Paarmita Pandey, T. de Jaeger, Thomas B. Lowe, Todd A. Thompson, Willem B. Hoogendam

arxiv:2608.06462 v1 · 2026-08-06 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NOO3JUXELCEUNEL3ZJPDHTXVPM}

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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	2026-08-10T01:10:45.255488Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b9db4d2e4588946917bca5e33cef57b3a6064352547e66a6824c8c852067433

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06462 · arxiv_version: 2608.06462v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06462 · pith_short_12: NOO3JUXELCEU · pith_short_16: NOO3JUXELCEUNEL3 · pith_short_8: NOO3JUXE

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/NOO3JUXELCEUNEL3ZJPDHTXVPM \
  | 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: 6b9db4d2e4588946917bca5e33cef57b3a6064352547e66a6824c8c852067433

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d755ec322560149845c44e81656899f3935ef371e32e6e3e9bbee12e62f6f1ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T18:00:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "decf8f1acf5123a1b7fdad48e6a492a78bc147a2a26d3997804e1e1462cae8b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06462",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}