Pith Number

pith:ZDVR4VS5

pith:2019:ZDVR4VS533RGG5NQEXCEEBFZ4I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Orbit and Size-Frequency Distribution of Long Period Comets Observed by Pan-STARRS1

Benjamin Boe, C. Waters, E. A. Magnier, Karen J. Meech, K. C. Chambers, L. Denneau, N. Kaiser, Paul Wiegert, R. J. Wainscoat, Robert Jedicke, Robert J. Weryk, R. P. Kudritzki

arxiv:1905.13458 v1 · 2019-05-31 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZDVR4VS533RGG5NQEXCEEBFZ4I}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:42:18.645802Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c8eb1e565ddee26375b025c44204b9e210f99a110b4dd83a2206260a65219490

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.13458 · arxiv_version: 1905.13458v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.13458 · pith_short_12: ZDVR4VS533RG · pith_short_16: ZDVR4VS533RGG5NQ · pith_short_8: ZDVR4VS5

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/ZDVR4VS533RGG5NQEXCEEBFZ4I \
  | 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: c8eb1e565ddee26375b025c44204b9e210f99a110b4dd83a2206260a65219490

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ffbbd651239439c5617b32d14abb3d01834b17fd05e7fdd91631f6859272861a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-31T08:16:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "14e48967595545dfbce2738311c7c556214cd54e35222c712d735dca548608cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.13458",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}