Pith Number

pith:76AZFE7C

pith:1996:76AZFE7C3YPJ7KUTUDBEJ55Y4Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cygnus X-1: A Case for a Magnetic Accretion Disk?

Brian A. Vaughan (Caltech), James Dove (JILA), Joern Wilms (IAA-Tuebingen), Michael A. Nowak (JILA)

arxiv:astro-ph/9610258 v1 · 1996-10-31 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{76AZFE7C3YPJ7KUTUDBEJ55Y4Q}

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:40.628172Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ff819293e2de1e9faa93a0c244f7b8e40589f7f3c603a7f1795a8411d9adf188

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9610258 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9610258v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9610258 · pith_short_12: 76AZFE7C3YPJ · pith_short_16: 76AZFE7C3YPJ7KUT · pith_short_8: 76AZFE7C

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/76AZFE7C3YPJ7KUTUDBEJ55Y4Q \
  | 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: ff819293e2de1e9faa93a0c244f7b8e40589f7f3c603a7f1795a8411d9adf188

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c2233c62fc6e593c927dc5f2ce12fa1d96ef999f7f73513dcc67cbc5d4691336",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-10-31T00:04:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d36c22cbae530fe494deebff5407cf0b031703c3fb27fe39fd276c76d8ee1b26"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9610258",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}