Pith Number

pith:45BTC7D4

pith:2012:45BTC7D4CERFFAUA2KRQL67SVD

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Observing complete gravitational wave signals from dynamical capture binaries

Frans Pretorius, Janna Levin, Sean T. McWilliams, William E. East

arxiv:1212.0837 v2 · 2012-12-04 · gr-qc · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.HE

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GW231123: a Binary Black Hole Merger with Total Mass 190-265 $M_{\odot}$

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:33:49.625152Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e743317c7c1122528280d2a305fbf2a8ea1f7dca10d86aad4a44e78969a5aa88

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.0837 · arxiv_version: 1212.0837v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.0837 · pith_short_12: 45BTC7D4CERF · pith_short_16: 45BTC7D4CERFFAUA · pith_short_8: 45BTC7D4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/45BTC7D4CERFFAUA2KRQL67SVD \
  | 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: e743317c7c1122528280d2a305fbf2a8ea1f7dca10d86aad4a44e78969a5aa88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "851b2b262cea682c5898aefd78f7d7e27b0074d69f48deda91c443069d9f8fcf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-04T19:43:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b07e04b8a599efd5e9e39029e45d481f8b2eb8b33ea50e408ea2f657e02f9465"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.0837",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}