Pith Number

pith:4WPLH4CI

pith:2010:4WPLH4CI7KQSOE5KBFLQXYNMBD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

X-ray bursts from the Terzan 5 transient IGR J17480-2446: nuclear rather than gravitational

India), Manoneeta Chakraborty (TIFR, Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR

arxiv:1101.0181 v2 · 2010-12-30 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.GA · nucl-ex · nucl-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4WPLH4CI7KQSOE5KBFLQXYNMBD}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:04:16.333178Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e59eb3f048faa12713aa09570be1ac08f6b9f1585cf220e5c3df196e6ca8cfff

Aliases

arxiv: 1101.0181 · arxiv_version: 1101.0181v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1101.0181 · pith_short_12: 4WPLH4CI7KQS · pith_short_16: 4WPLH4CI7KQSOE5K · pith_short_8: 4WPLH4CI

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/4WPLH4CI7KQSOE5KBFLQXYNMBD \
  | 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: e59eb3f048faa12713aa09570be1ac08f6b9f1585cf220e5c3df196e6ca8cfff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1b0f6e668fbe8fdc76e267af835ae0c9befcdf5f81afe556c7fe6e9afe49e11a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "nucl-ex",
      "nucl-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2010-12-30T23:43:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12bd6c3c1bd9e141b52777baae9c8aaeb435dcc6308fa2dedb81dc4342c3c605"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1101.0181",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}