Pith Number

pith:B4QEIG3H

pith:1998:B4QEIG3H3DF6MUDUAFVRHSSYPU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

RXTE highlights of 34.85-day cycle of Her X-1

K. A. Postnov (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, M. E. Prokhorov, Moscow, N. A. Ketsaris, N. I. Shakura, Russia)

arxiv:astro-ph/9806126 v1 · 1998-06-09 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B4QEIG3H3DF6MUDUAFVRHSSYPU}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:14.069096Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f20441b67d8cbe65074016b13ca587d0976488c2849f398f0276f32442c070e

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9806126 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9806126v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9806126 · pith_short_12: B4QEIG3H3DF6 · pith_short_16: B4QEIG3H3DF6MUDU · pith_short_8: B4QEIG3H

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/B4QEIG3H3DF6MUDUAFVRHSSYPU \
  | 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: 0f20441b67d8cbe65074016b13ca587d0976488c2849f398f0276f32442c070e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9452f56491e295ed6a0794a47434f93958dd872cdd0c7180960e5344647479ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-06-09T13:25:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ebc4dad80ae1148e00745c3c9da4ce440242ed87ae6b70266362e6c5b61a3ea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9806126",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}