Pith Number

pith:44RZBQUG

pith:2016:44RZBQUGGRQ2RWBXM3DP2ZKTDS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Tidal disruption events from supermassive black hole binaries

Chris Nixon, Eric R. Coughlin, Mitchell C. Begelman, Philip J. Armitage

arxiv:1608.05711 v2 · 2016-08-19 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{44RZBQUGGRQ2RWBXM3DP2ZKTDS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:53:07.696330Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e72390c2863461a8d83766c6fd65531cb832d35637c524b5e9fe20ce721f84c8

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.05711 · arxiv_version: 1608.05711v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.05711 · pith_short_12: 44RZBQUGGRQ2 · pith_short_16: 44RZBQUGGRQ2RWBX · pith_short_8: 44RZBQUG

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/44RZBQUGGRQ2RWBXM3DP2ZKTDS \
  | 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: e72390c2863461a8d83766c6fd65531cb832d35637c524b5e9fe20ce721f84c8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6da575f2c82a7d0e55d8ea8a710619c02666873a591cec28e758077d5eed2af6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-19T20:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e2d12cb6f6765cd92f8e4209dece6a7b90124b0f3fffff31e8b472d29dc7fad1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.05711",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}