Pith Number

pith:BVHMNZP3

pith:2015:BVHMNZP3UBPLOCDDCSALUNKV6G

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stability and Coalescence of Massive Twin Binaries

Frederic A. Rasio, James C. Lombardi Jr., Jason A. Hwang, Vassiliki Kalogera

arxiv:1505.05812 v1 · 2015-05-21 · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BVHMNZP3UBPLOCDDCSALUNKV6G}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:42:51.984294Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d4ec6e5fba05eb708631480ba3555f18a3337f3d1e554e185e9f2f69c4708d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.05812 · arxiv_version: 1505.05812v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.05812 · pith_short_12: BVHMNZP3UBPL · pith_short_16: BVHMNZP3UBPLOCDD · pith_short_8: BVHMNZP3

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/BVHMNZP3UBPLOCDDCSALUNKV6G \
  | 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: 0d4ec6e5fba05eb708631480ba3555f18a3337f3d1e554e185e9f2f69c4708d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ac0b8198faeb3bd2297f39955e4e52cdf22e91b40c33ed57a68bff34779b164",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-21T18:02:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ac62b383f31b8139f22e3c54309b7cbcaabfe8491174a9498ce22ac31e3e0534"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.05812",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}