Pith Number

pith:2QCB5VZD

pith:1998:2QCB5VZDYFM56IXVWZHPRPUTFK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Neutron Stars of Soft X-Ray Transients

L. Stella, M. Colpi, M. Tavani, S. Campana, S. Mereghetti

arxiv:astro-ph/9805079 v1 · 1998-05-06 · astro-ph

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Tracing the outburst decay of soft X-ray transients Aql X-1 and 4U 1608-52 with XSPECT

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:06:21.763696Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d4041ed723c159df22f5b64ef8be932a8dea8c2f95a4f3fc38c4d0c22ef486f4

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9805079 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9805079v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9805079 · pith_short_12: 2QCB5VZDYFM5 · pith_short_16: 2QCB5VZDYFM56IXV · pith_short_8: 2QCB5VZD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2QCB5VZDYFM56IXVWZHPRPUTFK \
  | 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: d4041ed723c159df22f5b64ef8be932a8dea8c2f95a4f3fc38c4d0c22ef486f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "865b6e840ab7b0283b5150e58ea94280b0e0206af961a9deac6c0b21986215c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-05-06T17:47:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "169ff67bc6f59bd4b480137ee3d4294833229998ee9b94da6edd94fa06e44201"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9805079",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}