Pith Number

pith:AQ2FMLKA

pith:1996:AQ2FMLKARHW6GMSFAPMAOETKNY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

RXTE Observation of Cygnus X-1 In Its High State

(2) UCSD, (3) MSFC, (4) GSFC), K. Jahoda (4), R. E. Rothschild (2), S. N. Zhang (3), W. A. Heindl (2), W. Cui (1), W. Focke (4) ((1) MIT

arxiv:astro-ph/9610071 v1 · 1996-10-10 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AQ2FMLKARHW6GMSFAPMAOETKNY}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:40:19.110069Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0434562d4089ede3324503d807126a6e28e48f8effe3b8a99067c70e995beba7

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9610071 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9610071v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9610071 · pith_short_12: AQ2FMLKARHW6 · pith_short_16: AQ2FMLKARHW6GMSF · pith_short_8: AQ2FMLKA

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/AQ2FMLKARHW6GMSFAPMAOETKNY \
  | 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: 0434562d4089ede3324503d807126a6e28e48f8effe3b8a99067c70e995beba7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d82734ec242aa6e4fcd565aeb6bf77e728bdfee84027c706f0d46ed2e0af0c1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-10-10T14:58:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e92df6ce8f7aae20d7fffaad5e8199fbe5663febb5911d453bfc3ff3cdfff4f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9610071",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}