Pith Number

pith:UYXKQOFS

pith:2017:UYXKQOFSMUSRLWIMF3IKWVNXK2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Structuring metadata for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Catherine Boisson, Johan Br\'egeon, Jose-Luis Contreras (for the CTA Consortium), Julien Lefaucheur, Mathieu Servillat, Mich\`ele Sanguillon

arxiv:1706.06512 v2 · 2017-06-20 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UYXKQOFSMUSRLWIMF3IKWVNXK2}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:03.689857Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a62ea838b2652515d90c2ed0ab55b756a2dc487461030cedef0ef3f17a6b2850

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.06512 · arxiv_version: 1706.06512v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.06512 · pith_short_12: UYXKQOFSMUSR · pith_short_16: UYXKQOFSMUSRLWIM · pith_short_8: UYXKQOFS

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/UYXKQOFSMUSRLWIMF3IKWVNXK2 \
  | 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: a62ea838b2652515d90c2ed0ab55b756a2dc487461030cedef0ef3f17a6b2850

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2ea3d6854abd40db5af72619b1b6d36dbf5e91f84f5cbc45140680ba2ac46f27",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-20T15:19:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b72e4946707c206ebeb1c5b552798fc88963b917326a3850382c28a1c13e0c07"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.06512",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}