Pith Number

pith:23FNOLPV

pith:1997:23FNOLPVAHQYST7CSMPQSBJHBX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Physical Interpretation of X-ray Phase Lags and Coherence: RXTE Observations of Cygnus X--1 as a Case Study

B.A. Vaughan, J.B.Dove, M.A. Nowak, M.C. Begelman

arxiv:astro-ph/9712106 v1 · 1997-12-07 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{23FNOLPVAHQYST7CSMPQSBJHBX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:14.804905Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d6cad72df501e1894fe2931f0905270de5bf898c408596df99207e97d1a4f4bd

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9712106 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9712106v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9712106 · pith_short_12: 23FNOLPVAHQY · pith_short_16: 23FNOLPVAHQYST7C · pith_short_8: 23FNOLPV

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/23FNOLPVAHQYST7CSMPQSBJHBX \
  | 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: d6cad72df501e1894fe2931f0905270de5bf898c408596df99207e97d1a4f4bd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c6df1345980898ade2ed4c92c441b61807b1135172eff92b7662f836133702a8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-07T22:46:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4cd27f521d49b636ee1b035e72432db76842abf49f3897bc45e447ad3afd78e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9712106",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}