Pith Number

pith:2A3O7BDH

pith:1996:2A3O7BDHAVFMAXVQK3C3E6263W

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Optical Observations of GRO J1655-40 in Quiescence I: A Precise Mass for the Black Hole Primary

Charles D. Bailyn (Yale), Jerome A. Orosz (The Pennsylvania State University)

arxiv:astro-ph/9610211 v1 · 1996-10-25 · astro-ph

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Regular Rotating Black Hole: Probing the boundaries of the Radiative Signatures and Jet Power

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:00:17.487403Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d036ef8467054ac05eb056c5b27b5edd899cf0af4b5956af0cb2c26d579e9599

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9610211 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9610211v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9610211 · pith_short_12: 2A3O7BDHAVFM · pith_short_16: 2A3O7BDHAVFMAXVQ · pith_short_8: 2A3O7BDH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2A3O7BDHAVFMAXVQK3C3E6263W \
  | 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: d036ef8467054ac05eb056c5b27b5edd899cf0af4b5956af0cb2c26d579e9599

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4772900edb0962c7743824714598d2cfd449bcd1bfd75b31e950010c241b6c90",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-10-25T21:10:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "30ebe3bc113c09aa5ee1ad43410b176fa770c3e9742e935dfb3965ea021e20e8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9610211",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}