Pith Number

pith:2N2O2TTX

pith:2015:2N2O2TTXXVVETKSG6NV5E5YNWG

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Compact object mergers: Observations of supermassive binary black holes and stellar tidal disruption events

J.A. Zensus, S. Komossa

arxiv:1502.05720 v2 · 2015-02-19 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2N2O2TTXXVVETKSG6NV5E5YNWG}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:37:01.961465Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d374ed4e77bd6a49aa46f36bd2770db1b0df8b2be76eccd8dc3fcb4d2f8eae33

Aliases

arxiv: 1502.05720 · arxiv_version: 1502.05720v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1502.05720 · pith_short_12: 2N2O2TTXXVVE · pith_short_16: 2N2O2TTXXVVETKSG · pith_short_8: 2N2O2TTX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2N2O2TTXXVVETKSG6NV5E5YNWG \
  | 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: d374ed4e77bd6a49aa46f36bd2770db1b0df8b2be76eccd8dc3fcb4d2f8eae33

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "afcbd4b2d18785a115f88d7e591226ea773769e8be36c754d01dbe53163f38dd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-02-19T21:01:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82b3c7838b9b9eed42e2e58f5b19e04c33242e1b61dbd893315a4c63a1fbdc89"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1502.05720",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}