Pith Number

pith:BYNHAJMV

pith:2015:BYNHAJMVS33ALJZXCVZAH3JLNM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Lord of the Rings: A Kinematic Distance to Circinus X-1 from a Giant X-Ray Light Echo

Catherine Braiding, Michael A. Nowak, Michael G. Burton, Norbert S. Schulz, Paul Sell, Peter G. Jonker, Robert P. Fender, Sebastian Heinz, William N. Brandt

arxiv:1506.06142 v1 · 2015-06-19 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BYNHAJMVS33ALJZXCVZAH3JLNM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:41:58.635711Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e1a70259596f605a737157203ed2b6b1e81bb5d51da18ddb8f049fa1fc1a544

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.06142 · arxiv_version: 1506.06142v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.06142 · pith_short_12: BYNHAJMVS33A · pith_short_16: BYNHAJMVS33ALJZX · pith_short_8: BYNHAJMV

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/BYNHAJMVS33ALJZXCVZAH3JLNM \
  | 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: 0e1a70259596f605a737157203ed2b6b1e81bb5d51da18ddb8f049fa1fc1a544

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6750d793ddfa1cdf685ec58345a58065f990241d5a8217dc9f015e22e0fd3ac5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-19T20:01:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de2e011b7dbf55aad8fdb673968e5fef3d65934f5947b2dca6ded0bd4c80d28f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.06142",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}