Pith Number

pith:6ZLDCPJL

pith:2011:6ZLDCPJLU5IQUTGP2V3YFT243L

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The Mass of the Black Hole in Cygnus X-1

Jason P. Aufdenberg, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Jerome A. Orosz, Lijun Gou, Mark J. Reid, Ramesh Narayan, Ronald A. Remillard

arxiv:1106.3689 v2 · 2011-06-18 · astro-ph.HE

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:01:35.219386Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f656313d2ba7510a4ccfd57782cf5cdad2620b18c74c169456691d0520172263

Aliases

arxiv: 1106.3689 · arxiv_version: 1106.3689v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1106.3689 · pith_short_12: 6ZLDCPJLU5IQ · pith_short_16: 6ZLDCPJLU5IQUTGP · pith_short_8: 6ZLDCPJL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6ZLDCPJLU5IQUTGP2V3YFT243L \
  | 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: f656313d2ba7510a4ccfd57782cf5cdad2620b18c74c169456691d0520172263

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aee5d210ed810b6b5388c3b12f3f77b1147ab77eb2e7d5be50990c6eb3a1a896",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2011-06-18T21:29:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57badba3457e0945edf71a565bb5b5104046e88d84edf849e8eb41f846d17189"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1106.3689",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}