Pith Number

pith:RMI4BGNT

pith:2009:RMI4BGNT2LNY5M7AKVWAGTLID6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Telescope Time Without Tears: A Distributed Approach to Peer Review

(2) University of California Irvine, Donald G. Saari (2) ((1) University of Nottingham, Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Sciences), Michael R. Merrifield (1), School of Physics & Astronomy

arxiv:0906.1943 v1 · 2009-06-10 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RMI4BGNT2LNY5M7AKVWAGTLID6}

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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	2026-05-18T02:13:20.977262Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b11c099b3d2db8eb3e0556c034d681f879114fdb198ad67070fb88c6bbacd1e

Aliases

arxiv: 0906.1943 · arxiv_version: 0906.1943v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0906.1943 · pith_short_12: RMI4BGNT2LNY · pith_short_16: RMI4BGNT2LNY5M7A · pith_short_8: RMI4BGNT

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/RMI4BGNT2LNY5M7AKVWAGTLID6 \
  | 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: 8b11c099b3d2db8eb3e0556c034d681f879114fdb198ad67070fb88c6bbacd1e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "58649537e73f57553bb83daacee8e6dd1099d977a9282cf480627455c3ea558b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2009-06-10T14:09:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca02b14cbb1acfb2e0287f29184a9ee6dd8b925704684e81bf0d869758b11fe1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0906.1943",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}