Pith Number

pith:VGVDRELW

pith:2005:VGVDRELWZVKLHPTDLQAFXSHB5T

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A Possible High Nova Rate for Two Local Group Dwarf Galaxies: M32 and NGC 205

(2) American Museum of Natural History), James D. Neill (1), Michael M. Shara (2) ((1) University of Victoria

arxiv:astro-ph/0501030 v1 · 2005-01-03 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{VGVDRELWZVKLHPTDLQAFXSHB5T}

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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	2026-05-18T04:35:35.726400Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9aa389176cd54b3be635c005bc8e1ece382206d729c6d1ec53db6cc42a4a5e9

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0501030 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0501030v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0501030 · pith_short_12: VGVDRELWZVKL · pith_short_16: VGVDRELWZVKLHPTD · pith_short_8: VGVDRELW

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/VGVDRELWZVKLHPTDLQAFXSHB5T \
  | 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: a9aa389176cd54b3be635c005bc8e1ece382206d729c6d1ec53db6cc42a4a5e9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1328c7cb688fcc816ac04d2016a19d6e352a6f3af8a96fcfd546495f16677e7c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-01-03T21:28:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5d28a01c8cbfda2b76f59a537ef1892a581e23e64d7062df6b8d173cc1dd58d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0501030",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}