Pith Number

pith:WSL73R2E

pith:2008:WSL73R2ERKOCIU3H5VWHGWMNVV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Swift-UVOT captures the earliest ultraviolet spectrum of a Gamma Ray Burst

A.A. Breeveld, A. Cucciara, A. Parsons, C. Gronwall, C. James, D. Palmer, E. A. Hoversten, F.E. Marshall, H. Lamoureux, M.Carter, M. De Pasquale, M.J. Page, M. Still, N.P.M. Kuin, P.A. Curran, P.J. Brown, P.J. Smith, P. Roming, P. Schady, S. Hunsberger, S. Koch, S.R. Oates, S.T. Holland, T. Kennedy, W.B. Landsman

arxiv:0812.2943 v2 · 2008-12-15 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WSL73R2ERKOCIU3H5VWHGWMNVV}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-04T17:13:54.422799Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b497fdc7448a9c245367ed6c73598dad46c5faf4dde9c9fd8a53b00fd25ba082

Aliases

arxiv: 0812.2943 · arxiv_version: 0812.2943v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0812.2943 · pith_short_12: WSL73R2ERKOC · pith_short_16: WSL73R2ERKOCIU3H · pith_short_8: WSL73R2E

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/WSL73R2ERKOCIU3H5VWHGWMNVV \
  | 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: b497fdc7448a9c245367ed6c73598dad46c5faf4dde9c9fd8a53b00fd25ba082

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9ca01551563342e2a7448dcf6551b204993cb9137d4978953dc4b315d501072c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-12-15T23:47:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e94739676c675b2eac39f1e76973a19a733b4c888738fd2df20765fa6a01b839"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0812.2943",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}