Pith Number

pith:UDNBPKLQ

pith:2006:UDNBPKLQJDOSPYE6QSUNDKVTOU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ultraviolet Detection of the Tidal Disruption of a Star by a Supermassive Black Hole

B. Milliard, D. C. Martin, D. Schiminovich, J. P. Halpern, K. Forster, M. Seibert, P. G. Friedman, P. Morrissey, S. Basa, S. Gezari, S. G. Neff, T. K. Wyder, T. Small

arxiv:astro-ph/0612069 v1 · 2006-12-04 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UDNBPKLQJDOSPYE6QSUNDKVTOU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:36:20.642565Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a0da17a97048dd27e09e84a8d1aab3753f714bb2ccba7e619345559930afb036

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0612069 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0612069v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0612069 · pith_short_12: UDNBPKLQJDOS · pith_short_16: UDNBPKLQJDOSPYE6 · pith_short_8: UDNBPKLQ

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/UDNBPKLQJDOSPYE6QSUNDKVTOU \
  | 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: a0da17a97048dd27e09e84a8d1aab3753f714bb2ccba7e619345559930afb036

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7fa8a360c43deb68a464401fc771ec3ef903244b7096e359aae2a84fda3a0c43",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-12-04T20:39:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c3ec519f3bbae732be7b4358563b4bc9fc9e528f95594da6cabd9708bdbf820"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0612069",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}