Pith Number

pith:VEZVIG5W

pith:1997:VEZVIG5WNUDNUYAAEPFOFRQXNQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

ROSAT Detection and High Precision Localization of X-ray Sources in the November 19, 1978 Gamma-Ray Burst Error Box

C. Motch (Observatoire de Strasbourg), H. Pedersen (NBIfAFG - Copenhagen), J. Greiner, M. Boer (CESR Toulouse), P. Kahabka (MPE Garching), W. Voges

arxiv:astro-ph/9703070 v1 · 1997-03-11 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VEZVIG5WNUDNUYAAEPFOFRQXNQ}

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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	2026-07-04T16:02:54.786437Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a933541bb66d06da600023cae2c6176c12459c4f38d3ff7526f493b6d60a9013

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9703070 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9703070v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9703070 · pith_short_12: VEZVIG5WNUDN · pith_short_16: VEZVIG5WNUDNUYAA · pith_short_8: VEZVIG5W

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/VEZVIG5WNUDNUYAAEPFOFRQXNQ \
  | 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: a933541bb66d06da600023cae2c6176c12459c4f38d3ff7526f493b6d60a9013

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4dca79d449a2fe3f868697fafa690810d407a5bd7ea7c32561de0e3e9d39facc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-03-11T13:34:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4987bd2d8899a0d769a48138879315ef6bf250827f8089c0abce769bc3f46514"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9703070",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}