Pith Number

pith:ASMQTSLR

pith:2008:ASMQTSLRWCYYGO5SZNRG75SKZO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The X-ray Halo of Cen X-3

Richard E. Rothschild (UCSD/CASS), Thomas W. J. Thompson

arxiv:0806.2859 v3 · 2008-06-17 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ASMQTSLRWCYYGO5SZNRG75SKZO}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T04:29:33.422750Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

049909c971b0b1833bb2cb626ff64acb8edb027b440f2e4c8b85100c0236cd0e

Aliases

arxiv: 0806.2859 · arxiv_version: 0806.2859v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0806.2859 · pith_short_12: ASMQTSLRWCYY · pith_short_16: ASMQTSLRWCYYGO5S · pith_short_8: ASMQTSLR

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/ASMQTSLRWCYYGO5SZNRG75SKZO \
  | 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: 049909c971b0b1833bb2cb626ff64acb8edb027b440f2e4c8b85100c0236cd0e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "78a325b9787fe635eb619eace67e7d7d530f8967bf966565dcdca47fc16d392e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-06-17T19:20:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "09be2f3c269b0ca2ceec71099b57506c80a37b89bafeea53909f77e620986500"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0806.2859",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}