Pith Number

pith:VGMIQL5S

pith:2012:VGMIQL5SCWH5MWRZMVX5KBHIFC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Chandra COSMOS Survey: III. Optical and Infrared Identification of X-ray Point Sources

A. Bongiorno, A. Comastri (INAF-OABO), A. Fruscione, A. Koekemoer, C. D. Impey, C. Vignali, D. Masters, E. Lusso, F. Civano (SAO), F. Fiore, G. Lanzuisi, G. Zamorani (INAF-OABo), H. Hao, J. Kartaltepe, J. Silverman, J. Trump, K. Schawinski, M. Brusa (MPE), M. Cisternas, M. Elvis (SAO), M. Salvato (MPE), M. Urry, N. Cappelluti, N. J. Wright, N. Z. Scoville, P. Capak, R. Gilli, S. Lilly, S. Puccetti, T. Aldcroft, T. Miyaji, V. Mainieri

arxiv:1205.5030 v1 · 2012-05-22 · astro-ph.CO

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\pithnumber{VGMIQL5SCWH5MWRZMVX5KBHIFC}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:57:24.311800Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a998882fb2158fd65a39656fd504e828b4831425f917b194ed09acd8b67f1198

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.5030 · arxiv_version: 1205.5030v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.5030 · pith_short_12: VGMIQL5SCWH5 · pith_short_16: VGMIQL5SCWH5MWRZ · pith_short_8: VGMIQL5S

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VGMIQL5SCWH5MWRZMVX5KBHIFC \
  | 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: a998882fb2158fd65a39656fd504e828b4831425f917b194ed09acd8b67f1198

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0eb480ee597514580733ee2115cdc9732ddb7813e70180820ca498300ca58903",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-22T20:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19f8000b902eee7137edfa473c5e9f9a4c1a8e1ab6ce8334291a0f964d3195f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.5030",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}