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pith:7KUO23XN

pith:2013:7KUO23XN7I557W7765ZGVDWFYL
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The X-ray properties of the black hole transient MAXI J1659-152 in quiescence

David M. Russell, Diego Altamirano, Elena Gallo, Erik Kuulkers, Jeroen Homan, Joel K. Fridriksson, Nanda Rea, Peter G. Jonker

arxiv:1308.2580 v1 · 2013-08-12 · astro-ph.HE

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First computed 2026-05-18T01:48:16.319845Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

faa8ed6eedfa3bdfdbfff7726a8ec5c2c91e97d691a4810295b5d8eeb9595366

Aliases

arxiv: 1308.2580 · arxiv_version: 1308.2580v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1308.2580 · pith_short_12: 7KUO23XN7I55 · pith_short_16: 7KUO23XN7I557W77 · pith_short_8: 7KUO23XN
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7KUO23XN7I557W7765ZGVDWFYL \
  | 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: faa8ed6eedfa3bdfdbfff7726a8ec5c2c91e97d691a4810295b5d8eeb9595366
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c79bc9eea41374a77117d2ab9bfc02b83dc5e8d025142cc2408908dcd023b8a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2013-08-12T14:32:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4d51576b35917848528937e1cdfdfb80b86c4d562b2de43ca7fb7dc73932281c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1308.2580",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}