Pith Number

pith:3YYVVKBB

pith:2019:3YYVVKBB3ASD2ZKPVLHCSYJU6M

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The X-ray variable sky as seen by MAXI: the future of dust echo tomography with bright Galactic X-ray bursts

Brianna S. Mills, Gerard M. Williger, Lia Corrales, Sebastian Heinz

arxiv:1903.08299 v1 · 2019-03-20 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3YYVVKBB3ASD2ZKPVLHCSYJU6M}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-17T23:49:01.485423Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

de315aa821d8243d654faace296134f32f95881df01d458ede1f699a2ab7d1e0

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.08299 · arxiv_version: 1903.08299v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.08299 · pith_short_12: 3YYVVKBB3ASD · pith_short_16: 3YYVVKBB3ASD2ZKP · pith_short_8: 3YYVVKBB

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/3YYVVKBB3ASD2ZKPVLHCSYJU6M \
  | 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: de315aa821d8243d654faace296134f32f95881df01d458ede1f699a2ab7d1e0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c123ad12b9917fd7185ccfadd8fcb11f4d604460b6bf63e9dc23666112ab478d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-20T01:01:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c705a0225f0f1362073c757043a4823845aec98c2d3ca642560c7c7c96dd611"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.08299",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}