Pith Number

pith:VNE2NERU

pith:2016:VNE2NERUPYNTH3GBWH5HJBYBEO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery of a Long-Lived, High Amplitude Dusty Infrared Transient

C. Contreras Pena, C. Heinke, C. Johnson, C.T. Britt, D. Steeghs, G. Nelemans, J.D. Green, J. Strader, L. Chomiuk, L. Smith, M.A.P. Torres, N.J. Wright, P.G. Jonker, P. Lucas, R.I. Hynes, R. Kurtev, R. Salinas, T.J. Maccarone

arxiv:1605.05321 v1 · 2016-05-17 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VNE2NERUPYNTH3GBWH5HJBYBEO}

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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	2026-05-18T01:10:29.651925Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab49a692347e1b33ecc1b1fa74870123ba834e51e87c8cc698be42e497267268

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.05321 · arxiv_version: 1605.05321v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.05321 · pith_short_12: VNE2NERUPYNT · pith_short_16: VNE2NERUPYNTH3GB · pith_short_8: VNE2NERU

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/VNE2NERUPYNTH3GBWH5HJBYBEO \
  | 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: ab49a692347e1b33ecc1b1fa74870123ba834e51e87c8cc698be42e497267268

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1f7abec8f906b07c56b11da469eb1b8b2c933b1ba9ee77b8bb24e56cd826ba84",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-17T20:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5b3d6242e33cef3271fefaefc49c35f1697b320f37d4a7addb18402787a7cb06"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.05321",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}