Pith Number

pith:5IQIKHZM

pith:2017:5IQIKHZMIPEPK7F3B6OKPVJKDJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pulsing ULXs: tip of the iceberg?

Andrew King, Jean-Pierre Lasota, Wlodek Kluzniak

arxiv:1702.00808 v1 · 2017-02-02 · astro-ph.HE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5IQIKHZMIPEPK7F3B6OKPVJKDJ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:48:14.936661Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea20851f2c43c8f57cbb0f9ca7d52a1a649675042189cd3cb72458686a94a806

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.00808 · arxiv_version: 1702.00808v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.00808 · pith_short_12: 5IQIKHZMIPEP · pith_short_16: 5IQIKHZMIPEPK7F3 · pith_short_8: 5IQIKHZM

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/5IQIKHZMIPEPK7F3B6OKPVJKDJ \
  | 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: ea20851f2c43c8f57cbb0f9ca7d52a1a649675042189cd3cb72458686a94a806

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1135014313e9602980dc5c034de7d284664d317327fa6d0e7cdaf87ff99a5874",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-02T19:33:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e22d57eb8d15ace9ae9038fcf46bb6a0e50156cac5f9d7771fb7ed58f1c44df8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.00808",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}