Pith Number

pith:2V4DNTWF

pith:1997:2V4DNTWFXV6TKVGHT25QBLQDTB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Structure of Cooling Fronts in Accretion Disks

Ethan T. Vishniac

arxiv:astro-ph/9701046 v1 · 1997-01-09 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2V4DNTWFXV6TKVGHT25QBLQDTB}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:02:18.638015Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d57836cec5bd7d3554c79ebb00ae0398718cff15a3f08626e604cc0640f94ffe

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9701046 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9701046v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9701046 · pith_short_12: 2V4DNTWFXV6T · pith_short_16: 2V4DNTWFXV6TKVGH · pith_short_8: 2V4DNTWF

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/2V4DNTWFXV6TKVGHT25QBLQDTB \
  | 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: d57836cec5bd7d3554c79ebb00ae0398718cff15a3f08626e604cc0640f94ffe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c96fd398c8ce81c34ec613b68c4c9a84bc6538bac5c6b58866d140db9d183a17",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-01-09T19:51:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a3c9982ec4ff9fea68f81095e3ec2d786ab851145d7f1103cd8cf57cb6a2c316"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9701046",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}