Pith Number

pith:AFGI5MZD

pith:1999:AFGI5MZDEYBVSQ4PTTFE6TERZU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars

Frederic A. Rasio (MIT), Stuart L. Shapiro (UIUC)

arxiv:gr-qc/9902019 v1 · 1999-02-05 · gr-qc · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{AFGI5MZDEYBVSQ4PTTFE6TERZU}

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Record completeness

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

A magnetar formation in binary neutron star merger

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First computed	2026-07-04T17:25:19.972146Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

014c8eb323260359438f9cca4f4c91cd3d30f928d542ba32bf920b65d7351698

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/9902019 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/9902019v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9902019 · pith_short_12: AFGI5MZDEYBV · pith_short_16: AFGI5MZDEYBVSQ4P · pith_short_8: AFGI5MZD

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/AFGI5MZDEYBVSQ4PTTFE6TERZU \
  | 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: 014c8eb323260359438f9cca4f4c91cd3d30f928d542ba32bf920b65d7351698

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ad7379db7d2a33ff16574c95ea68a226ac6f10450643b8d3654a3eb25ffff4e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "1999-02-05T19:38:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db1c7cad683fc6b5c44a1bc695c84cb7b7584a528ee654de53bed5c9ae144b6e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/9902019",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}