Pith Number

pith:6TOA4KJG

pith:2009:6TOA4KJGPVMP4QDV2S3VFCAT7E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sinking of a magnetically confined mountain on an accreting neutron star

A. Melatos, K. Wette, M. Vigelius

arxiv:0910.5064 v1 · 2009-10-27 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6TOA4KJGPVMP4QDV2S3VFCAT7E}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-04T17:21:18.275395Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4dc0e29267d58fe4075d4b7528813f90ba033f8288712b1ff370dd4d6f8c5e6

Aliases

arxiv: 0910.5064 · arxiv_version: 0910.5064v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0910.5064 · pith_short_12: 6TOA4KJGPVMP · pith_short_16: 6TOA4KJGPVMP4QDV · pith_short_8: 6TOA4KJG

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/6TOA4KJGPVMP4QDV2S3VFCAT7E \
  | 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: f4dc0e29267d58fe4075d4b7528813f90ba033f8288712b1ff370dd4d6f8c5e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e5255ac53e321b98aaaead6b56eb7649f70e3c4a96b7ac49b21eb65a6be42842",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2009-10-27T09:17:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7384e7ac8bd302cafdf825963c7b4c9565ed6a24d9c5f4925366926c3335db04"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0910.5064",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}