Pith Number

pith:NXJVHKUY

pith:2017:NXJVHKUYBHOKFJ5V6G3EAJUXT3

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Cosmological-scale coherent orientations of quasar optical polarization vectors in the $Planck$ era Investigating the Galactic dust contamination scenario

Vincent Pelgrims

arxiv:1709.10271 v2 · 2017-09-29 · astro-ph.CO

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\pithnumber{NXJVHKUYBHOKFJ5V6G3EAJUXT3}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:54:11.786720Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6dd353aa9809dca2a7b5f1b64026979ecfb6a13089d6fa6e5e383f04ee14c953

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.10271 · arxiv_version: 1709.10271v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.10271 · pith_short_12: NXJVHKUYBHOK · pith_short_16: NXJVHKUYBHOKFJ5V · pith_short_8: NXJVHKUY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NXJVHKUYBHOKFJ5V6G3EAJUXT3 \
  | 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: 6dd353aa9809dca2a7b5f1b64026979ecfb6a13089d6fa6e5e383f04ee14c953

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a6388be63349983652948341edbbdf3207644a6bf06ff7b33167d3828962d195",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-29T07:50:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "674bb97f06d7adcfb445fe904d37737936cc9ec786da96a52ae24cfc03d99b8c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.10271",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}