Pith Number

pith:AZXTD36Z

pith:2012:AZXTD36ZLMABCA7T3VB7S2JAXJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy of the candidate black-hole X-ray binary MAXI J1659-152 in outburst

Alexander van der Horst, Antonio de Ugarte Postigo, Christina C. Thone, Chryssa Kouveliotou, David M. Russell, Diego Altamirano, Erik Kuulkers, Hector Flores, Johan P.U. Fynbo, Klaas Wiersema, Lex Kaper, Lucas E. Ellerbroek, Michiel van der Klis, Paolo D'Avanzo, Paolo Goldoni, Ramanpreet Kaur, Rudy Wijnands, Yi-Jung Yang

arxiv:1201.4883 v1 · 2012-01-23 · astro-ph.HE

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\pithnumber{AZXTD36ZLMABCA7T3VB7S2JAXJ}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T01:58:43.054084Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

066f31efd95b001103f3dd43f96920ba432c37300a7b851deb6606e7b80ca336

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.4883 · arxiv_version: 1201.4883v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.4883 · pith_short_12: AZXTD36ZLMAB · pith_short_16: AZXTD36ZLMABCA7T · pith_short_8: AZXTD36Z

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AZXTD36ZLMABCA7T3VB7S2JAXJ \
  | 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: 066f31efd95b001103f3dd43f96920ba432c37300a7b851deb6606e7b80ca336

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb6ef1ea81e4108c895ab1ff7b4adaf00d2ef2408e1bd0961a55164daf700ab9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-23T21:55:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26238e030bc3e08714902850aa49440a7e0ca2473562cabc4e96a45f072592b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.4883",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}