Pith Number

pith:2F4CR4I5

pith:2017:2F4CR4I5OI6ARJMP7ZZNHKAQXI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A possible solution of the puzzling variation of the orbital period of MXB 1659-298

A. D'A\`i, A. F. Gambino, A. Riggio, A. Sanna, F. Scarano, L. Burderi, M. Matranga, R. Iaria, T. Di Salvo

arxiv:1703.05294 v2 · 2017-03-15 · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2F4CR4I5OI6ARJMP7ZZNHKAQXI}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:31:58.936938Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d17828f11d723c08a58ffe72d3a810ba280df3c26744cf1e65580a7233f057ab

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.05294 · arxiv_version: 1703.05294v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.05294 · pith_short_12: 2F4CR4I5OI6A · pith_short_16: 2F4CR4I5OI6ARJMP · pith_short_8: 2F4CR4I5

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/2F4CR4I5OI6ARJMP7ZZNHKAQXI \
  | 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: d17828f11d723c08a58ffe72d3a810ba280df3c26744cf1e65580a7233f057ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "08d99340c38919698c3b4e8ab96d277be6c12e41098d1d1134ef6300a01ffd05",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-15T17:52:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ded3cc14c072050874388b6f48edb0bc99292ae24bf67c1889ddc2114ad8108"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.05294",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}