Pith Number

pith:46OW2OBU

pith:2017:46OW2OBUNE65MGOEHJCV46AGHU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The clumpy absorber in the high-mass X-ray binary Vela X-1

A.A.C. Sander, D.P. Huenemoerder, F. F\"urst, I. El Mellah, J. Neilsen, J. Wilms, K. Pottschmidt, M.A. Nowak, M. K\"uhnel, M. Leutenegger, N. Hell, N.S. Schulz, P. Kretschmar, S. Mart\'inez-N\'u\~nez, S. Niu, V. Grinberg

arxiv:1711.06743 v1 · 2017-11-17 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{46OW2OBUNE65MGOEHJCV46AGHU}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:27:41.626611Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e79d6d3834693dd619c43a455e78063d30757d2307c00b8a2156b70363299dda

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.06743 · arxiv_version: 1711.06743v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.06743 · pith_short_12: 46OW2OBUNE65 · pith_short_16: 46OW2OBUNE65MGOE · pith_short_8: 46OW2OBU

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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/46OW2OBUNE65MGOEHJCV46AGHU \
  | 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: e79d6d3834693dd619c43a455e78063d30757d2307c00b8a2156b70363299dda

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b6187044ab00937d6092d6f74cb33e8f0068eea9260211d16fa8483212e6763",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-17T22:02:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "571213faf076efcf8dc9793ef54f4a630b59b4ee66958c7decd85373dd0b5ee9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.06743",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}