Pith Number

pith:2N65W3XM

pith:2010:2N65W3XMMDSGM6VBKANBW5VEDG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Prompt Tidal Disruption of Stars as an Electromagnetic Signature of Supermassive Black Hole Coalescence

Abraham Loeb (Harvard), Nicholas Stone

arxiv:1004.4833 v2 · 2010-04-27 · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2N65W3XMMDSGM6VBKANBW5VEDG}

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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	2026-05-18T02:07:45.912708Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d37ddb6eec60e4667aa1501a1b76a4198057d0882260ade3af84068789f76768

Aliases

arxiv: 1004.4833 · arxiv_version: 1004.4833v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1004.4833 · pith_short_12: 2N65W3XMMDSG · pith_short_16: 2N65W3XMMDSGM6VB · pith_short_8: 2N65W3XM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2N65W3XMMDSGM6VBKANBW5VEDG \
  | 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: d37ddb6eec60e4667aa1501a1b76a4198057d0882260ade3af84068789f76768

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "217b32d2d8562f94620b34e73686ac9da2feb054e4347faad170cf14cdf7390a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2010-04-27T15:21:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d3796e47e26cf09da440f5424de6941068beeef79cd3a662ca4fcb2ac25a3ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1004.4833",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}