Pith Number

pith:2ME64CMC

pith:1999:2ME64CMCH2VDYOTLWIGLK4AVPL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Black-Hole X-Ray Transients: The Effect of Irradiation on Time-Dependent Accretion Disk Structure

(2) University of Texas at Austin, (3) Tokyo University), J. Craig Wheeler (2), Shin Mineshige (3) ((1) Seoul National University, Soon-Wook Kim (1)

arxiv:astro-ph/9908302 v1 · 1999-08-27 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{2ME64CMCH2VDYOTLWIGLK4AVPL}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:12.808432Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d309ee09823eaa3c3a6bb20cb570157af343849760984b39d20e3975715f94ea

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9908302 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9908302v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9908302 · pith_short_12: 2ME64CMCH2VD · pith_short_16: 2ME64CMCH2VDYOTL · pith_short_8: 2ME64CMC

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/2ME64CMCH2VDYOTLWIGLK4AVPL \
  | 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: d309ee09823eaa3c3a6bb20cb570157af343849760984b39d20e3975715f94ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6497f5867a392294ad82b383fce157d8abb2f0960ec4ed5c62a0f54b45c6e351",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-08-27T16:54:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c7d589307e6d58cd4f3b8762a8f860f9a5ed8a514202f7a635825f0233eaa964"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9908302",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}