Pith Number

pith:6SQG2JAB

pith:2016:6SQG2JABDFN64JHYFUTNFMZOAB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Superluminous Transient ASASSN-15lh as a Tidal Disruption Event from a Kerr Black Hole

A. De Cia, A. de Ugarte Postigo, A. Gal-Yam, B. E. Tucker, C. Ashall, C. Fremling, C. Inserra, C. Romero-Canizales, C. V. McCully, D. A. Howell, D. Malesani, D. R. Young, E. Kankare, F. Patat, G. Hosseinzadeh, G. Leloudas, H. Campbell, H. Kuncarayakti, I. Arcavi, I. Bar, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, J. C. Wheeler, J. Harmanen, J. Johansson, J. Lyman, J. R. Maund, J. Sollerman, K. Maguire, K. W. Smith, M. Childress, M. Fraser, M. Nicholl, M. R. Magee, M. Sullivan, N. C. Stone, N. Elias-Rosa, O. Yaron, P. A. Mazzali, P. G. Jonker, P. M. Vreeswijk, S. J. Smartt, S. Kim, S. Mattila, S. Prentice, S. Schulze, S. Valenti, S. van Velzen, T. Kangas, T. Kruhler, T.-W. Chen

arxiv:1609.02927 v2 · 2016-09-09 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{6SQG2JABDFN64JHYFUTNFMZOAB}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:55:20.677945Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4a06d2401195bee24f82d26d2b32e007d39f106988ad73fe19c8fa113e3d945

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.02927 · arxiv_version: 1609.02927v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.02927 · pith_short_12: 6SQG2JABDFN6 · pith_short_16: 6SQG2JABDFN64JHY · pith_short_8: 6SQG2JAB

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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/6SQG2JABDFN64JHYFUTNFMZOAB \
  | 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: f4a06d2401195bee24f82d26d2b32e007d39f106988ad73fe19c8fa113e3d945

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "558aa6270e0b0f1aba7d1eefc910f1b39289542104b836514fe6a3e8f33fe6b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-09T20:06:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "217b6dcbab121540ac8d65957cb003b9155a0468bfec69f5eaa374130d662781"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.02927",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}