Pith Number

pith:RAOICZPX

pith:2012:RAOICZPX3ACEODEAP4B5AKXJF2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Breakthrough capability for the NASA Astrophysics Explorer Program: Reaching the darkest sky

D.J. Fixsen, H.A. Thronson, J.B. Garvin, J.P. Gardner, J.W. Kruk, M.A. Greenhouse, R.D. Falck, S.R. Oleson, S.W. Benson

arxiv:1206.1886 v1 · 2012-06-08 · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RAOICZPX3ACEODEAP4B5AKXJF2}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:57:00.391042Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

881c8165f7d804470c807f03d02ae92e80dc40d71115b5d5dda364bbba8d40a1

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.1886 · arxiv_version: 1206.1886v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.1886 · pith_short_12: RAOICZPX3ACE · pith_short_16: RAOICZPX3ACEODEA · pith_short_8: RAOICZPX

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/RAOICZPX3ACEODEAP4B5AKXJF2 \
  | 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: 881c8165f7d804470c807f03d02ae92e80dc40d71115b5d5dda364bbba8d40a1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b538875082d580b9db6f62247adc9f5051b373d64257ced169eeabdc808ad2a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-08T22:30:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b32c185741d36649724e35e44935de2955cf2abb7bb3aeed07dd4930c63a26e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.1886",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}