Pith Number

pith:2LD27QBR

pith:2018:2LD27QBRGDHRYIJUMYEKF65EHB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Overabundance of Black Hole X-Ray Binaries in the Galactic Center from Tidal Captures

A. Generozov, B.D. Metzger, J.P. Ostriker, N.C. Stone

arxiv:1804.01543 v2 · 2018-04-04 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2LD27QBRGDHRYIJUMYEKF65EHB}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:11:34.855606Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d2c7afc03130cf1c21346608a2fba4386a3f037aeeeec58396bd8c726735afba

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.01543 · arxiv_version: 1804.01543v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.01543 · pith_short_12: 2LD27QBRGDHR · pith_short_16: 2LD27QBRGDHRYIJU · pith_short_8: 2LD27QBR

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/2LD27QBRGDHRYIJUMYEKF65EHB \
  | 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: d2c7afc03130cf1c21346608a2fba4386a3f037aeeeec58396bd8c726735afba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3cedd6c8d60e4f231d221e94114d9a832695cdcde5ea09d228ceb90852bb8f78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-04T18:00:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c40df09e3fa33f40e5d3670449374f746eaa58db4778aafd1b8ab49c4c1be6e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.01543",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}