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pith:ZGO45ZEC

pith:2017:ZGO45ZECIM5BZNY2EEJWNHPVS7
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How Special Is GRB 170817A?

Chuan Yue, Da-Ming Wei, Fu-Wen Zhang, Qian Hu, Yi-Zhong Fan, Yuan-Chuan Zou, Yun-Feng Liang, Zhi-Ping Jin

arxiv:1710.05942 v2 · 2017-10-16 · astro-ph.HE · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZGO45ZECIM5BZNY2EEJWNHPVS7}

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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.
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First computed 2026-05-18T00:24:37.357578Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c99dcee482433a1cb71a2113669df597fa379bfe8b75af1632ef3c9eca097d84

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.05942 · arxiv_version: 1710.05942v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.05942 · pith_short_12: ZGO45ZECIM5B · pith_short_16: ZGO45ZECIM5BZNY2 · pith_short_8: ZGO45ZEC
Agent API
Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZGO45ZECIM5BZNY2EEJWNHPVS7 \
  | 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: c99dcee482433a1cb71a2113669df597fa379bfe8b75af1632ef3c9eca097d84
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7da231fa53b14978f358484b6565d9fa0fe5603f05fcc55ebd45f5f7183af629",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-16T18:05:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0775cc7a5cd4531ba7b0f54b19a4bdb6f9ccda4b2cd7660874ea780f66c4dd23"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.05942",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}