Pith Number

pith:6AKLZBFI

pith:2002:6AKLZBFIWXPJZSYVMVKA2NL2VF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

RXTE observations of XTE J1550-564 during its 2000 outburst

E. Kalemci, J. Rodriguez, J. Tomsick, S. Corbel

arxiv:astro-ph/0205341 v1 · 2002-05-21 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6AKLZBFIWXPJZSYVMVKA2NL2VF}

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:44.790160Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f014bc84a8b5de9ccb1565540d357aa95be1c8ef3c8969c26d610d2f60681db3

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0205341 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0205341v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0205341 · pith_short_12: 6AKLZBFIWXPJ · pith_short_16: 6AKLZBFIWXPJZSYV · pith_short_8: 6AKLZBFI

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/6AKLZBFIWXPJZSYVMVKA2NL2VF \
  | 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: f014bc84a8b5de9ccb1565540d357aa95be1c8ef3c8969c26d610d2f60681db3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4caa831da0ee907831acd34222526ea47f1cd6430d1ea8739ec1bb00de78b0d4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-21T08:54:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48c1c59efcaefe207d16f9f4ee95849720c540303ab8f69839f654c4e655c7cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0205341",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}