Pith Number

pith:SN42GG2O

pith:2016:SN42GG2OR6MDILDDMXR45KI52R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

T Pyxidis: Death by a Thousand Novae

(2) Center for Backyard Astrophysics, (3) Middlebury Coll., (4) Harlingten Obs.), Arto Oksanen (2), Berto Monard (2), Caisey Harlingten (4), Franz-Josef Hambsch (2), Gordon Myers (2), Greg Bolt (2) ((1) Columbia Univ., Jennie McCormick (2), Jonathan Kemp (3), Jordan Borgman (1), Joseph Patterson (1), Peter Nelson (2), Robert Rea (2), Shawn Dvorak (2), Simon Lowther (2), Thomas Krajci (2), Thomas Richards (2), William Allen (2)

arxiv:1603.00291 v1 · 2016-03-01 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SN42GG2OR6MDILDDMXR45KI52R}

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:41.828351Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9379a31b4e8f98342c6365e3cea91dd47ccd62b9cef20c33433e2c225277ccce

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.00291 · arxiv_version: 1603.00291v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.00291 · pith_short_12: SN42GG2OR6MD · pith_short_16: SN42GG2OR6MDILDD · pith_short_8: SN42GG2O

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/SN42GG2OR6MDILDDMXR45KI52R \
  | 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: 9379a31b4e8f98342c6365e3cea91dd47ccd62b9cef20c33433e2c225277ccce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c8b0a050a9a5235d9d057446d4565d9577ce8f508d48a5589bcff9076ade63b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-01T14:41:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "513e20aefc7c37f8ff27a386877e5d556eaf4f74016ed3f3c0912aecf49eaf53"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.00291",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}