Pith Number

pith:C46JLQUE

pith:1997:C46JLQUEEN4XFSA23SHHWD3E4Y

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An outburst of the magnetic cataclysmic variable XY Arietis observed with RXTE

A. P. Beardmore (Keele University), Coel Hellier, Koji Mukai

arxiv:astro-ph/9708077 v1 · 1997-08-08 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C46JLQUEEN4XFSA23SHHWD3E4Y}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:16.893106Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

173c95c284237972c81adc8e7b0f64e62713e09440db725fa5dc50e6072485ce

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9708077 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9708077v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9708077 · pith_short_12: C46JLQUEEN4X · pith_short_16: C46JLQUEEN4XFSA2 · pith_short_8: C46JLQUE

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/C46JLQUEEN4XFSA23SHHWD3E4Y \
  | 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: 173c95c284237972c81adc8e7b0f64e62713e09440db725fa5dc50e6072485ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ccbe88be0311ed5c2be7a9d007c666547b0ded0fc734366bf0733ed22d40e932",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-08-08T09:35:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "52cbfe3895cf2f4c2b7d0f2ca6f1167e2980ab1ec422e4e4ef0abc517e2c5895"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9708077",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}