Pith Number

pith:VDP36WEY

pith:2023:VDP36WEY54IOTSW4I4RNMBVRPH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Small Platforms, High Return: The Need to Enhance Investment in Small Satellites for Focused Science, Career Development, and Improved Equity

Aimee Merkel, Alfred G. de Wijn, Allison Jaynes, Amal Chandran, Amir Caspi, Andrew R. Jones, Chris R. Gilly, Christopher S. Moore, Daniel B. Seaton, Ed Thiemann, Edward E. DeLuca, E. I. Mason, Francis Eparvier, Frederick Wilder, George Ho, George Hospodarsky, Harlan Spence, Ian Cohen, James Paul Mason, Juliana T. Vievering, Justin C. Kasper, Karin Dissauer, Leonardo Regoli, Maitland Bowen, Phillip C. Chamberlin, Rachael Filwett, Rafael Mesquita, Rick Kohnert, Robert G. Begbie, Romina Nikoukar, Sabrina Savage, Sarah Gibson, Thomas N. Woods, Vicki Herde, W. Dean Pesnell, Zoe Lee

arxiv:2306.05481 v1 · 2023-06-08 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.SR · physics.space-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDP36WEY54IOTSW4I4RNMBVRPH}

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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	2026-07-05T06:48:08.678953Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8dfbf5898ef10e9cadc4722d606b179cdff584983a056e2acfd06545a1a3bbf

Aliases

arxiv: 2306.05481 · arxiv_version: 2306.05481v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.05481 · pith_short_12: VDP36WEY54IO · pith_short_16: VDP36WEY54IOTSW4 · pith_short_8: VDP36WEY

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/VDP36WEY54IOTSW4I4RNMBVRPH \
  | 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: a8dfbf5898ef10e9cadc4722d606b179cdff584983a056e2acfd06545a1a3bbf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1659121576a1c5786c43672483012b0d92dbc352c168e442d70850703684e931",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR",
      "physics.space-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2023-06-08T18:05:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "83d241438f338294f69af89fa6c507b9a97380ca94d39d095e23973e00f4a6de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2306.05481",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}