Pith Number

pith:3ZEVBA7Z

pith:2012:3ZEVBA7Z5VSYMVFWCOA3IODPYP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A 200-s Quasi-Periodicity Following the Tidal Disruption of a Star by a Dormant Black Hole

A. L. King, D. Maitra, J. M. Miller, K. Gultekin, M. T. Reynolds, R. C. Reis, T. E. Strohmayer

arxiv:1208.1046 v1 · 2012-08-05 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.HE · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3ZEVBA7Z5VSYMVFWCOA3IODPYP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T03:49:20.707748Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

de495083f9ed658654b61381b4386fc3f9668f0c94c278a9d93dd1beeaf0f271

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.1046 · arxiv_version: 1208.1046v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.1046 · pith_short_12: 3ZEVBA7Z5VSY · pith_short_16: 3ZEVBA7Z5VSYMVFW · pith_short_8: 3ZEVBA7Z

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/3ZEVBA7Z5VSYMVFWCOA3IODPYP \
  | 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: de495083f9ed658654b61381b4386fc3f9668f0c94c278a9d93dd1beeaf0f271

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7b829765f0dc026cd92adc29fd82cbbcee19580bd47d6452da76276f0c7d2c48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-05T20:03:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1443452f0c23e68bc953b546789210a8cc2ec724ae8877538de981670fb0bcb5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.1046",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}