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pith:BCHMXS76

pith:2017:BCHMXS76WTE2NORGGBBWHNEKKJ
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Ultra-luminous X-ray sources as super-critical propellers

Kaz{\i}m Yavuz Ek\c{s}i, M. Ali Alpar, M. Hakan Erkut

arxiv:1708.04502 v5 · 2017-08-15 · astro-ph.HE

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First computed 2026-05-17T23:50:47.157375Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

088ecbcbfeb4c9a6ba26304363b48a5257dbccbe5edcbddcffaaa875a3c524a7

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.04502 · arxiv_version: 1708.04502v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.04502 · pith_short_12: BCHMXS76WTE2 · pith_short_16: BCHMXS76WTE2NORG · pith_short_8: BCHMXS76
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BCHMXS76WTE2NORGGBBWHNEKKJ \
  | 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: 088ecbcbfeb4c9a6ba26304363b48a5257dbccbe5edcbddcffaaa875a3c524a7
Canonical record JSON
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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-15T14:07:41Z",
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  },
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  }
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