Pith Number

pith:2LWO554P

pith:2017:2LWO554P63HQEKOCARSNRBLF3I

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The nightmare scenario: measuring the stochastic gravitational-wave background from stalling massive black-hole binaries with pulsar-timing arrays

Enrico Barausse, Irina Dvorkin

arxiv:1702.06964 v2 · 2017-02-22 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2LWO554P63HQEKOCARSNRBLF3I}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:39:36.802918Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d2eceef78ff6cf0229c20464d88565da0611ee903f27d1c321c5dd920e0d9d2d

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.06964 · arxiv_version: 1702.06964v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.06964 · pith_short_12: 2LWO554P63HQ · pith_short_16: 2LWO554P63HQEKOC · pith_short_8: 2LWO554P

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2LWO554P63HQEKOCARSNRBLF3I \
  | 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: d2eceef78ff6cf0229c20464d88565da0611ee903f27d1c321c5dd920e0d9d2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5e9b84c787952a5692069a0c9751c2f4a4efa75484ef21aba3753837390a5dab",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-22T19:00:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d6655dc406a1f288015230f821aca31958217cd5064eb81d05b2eebf38ffef4f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.06964",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}