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pith:36KGO7LZ

pith:2015:36KGO7LZKA4RJ5QUHRBOXMYT2R

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Relativistic mergers of black hole binaries have large, similar masses, low spins and are circular

Pau Amaro-Seoane, Xian Chen

arxiv:1512.04897 v3 · 2015-12-15 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.HE · gr-qc

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Evidence for eccentricity in the population of binary black holes observed by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:18:39.082684Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

df94677d79503914f6143c42ebb313d44ef64bbef567d9583bb6ec6f69821d28

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.04897 · arxiv_version: 1512.04897v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.04897 · pith_short_12: 36KGO7LZKA4R · pith_short_16: 36KGO7LZKA4RJ5QU · pith_short_8: 36KGO7LZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/36KGO7LZKA4RJ5QUHRBOXMYT2R \
  | 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: df94677d79503914f6143c42ebb313d44ef64bbef567d9583bb6ec6f69821d28

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "59a893cc040680985bdb9c4803c85994947db30339a6d70f06ff784f51a545ed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-15T18:59:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0591455876e8172ab9878297847cfab0d16b4a714ba925581cfd5bc127a00989"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}