Pith Number

pith:CT2T3AFX

pith:2003:CT2T3AFX3BVJQ2452DHZYYIJCR

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The observers' view of (very) long X-ray bursts: they are super!

Erik Kuulkers (ESA/ESTEC)

arxiv:astro-ph/0310402 v1 · 2003-10-15 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{CT2T3AFX3BVJQ2452DHZYYIJCR}

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Tracing the outburst decay of soft X-ray transients Aql X-1 and 4U 1608-52 with XSPECT

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:37:32.563584Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

14f53d80b7d86a986b9dd0cf9c610914569eca9244754a4b17f1d1b33ed636df

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0310402 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0310402v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0310402 · pith_short_12: CT2T3AFX3BVJ · pith_short_16: CT2T3AFX3BVJQ245 · pith_short_8: CT2T3AFX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CT2T3AFX3BVJQ2452DHZYYIJCR \
  | 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: 14f53d80b7d86a986b9dd0cf9c610914569eca9244754a4b17f1d1b33ed636df

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4bb600578fedf123f2b119edfa24479056cd640ca0823e7112bbd92b5e5cd3b9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-10-15T08:49:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4381fd708aa7273bcf093a1f449db6eabdfd0468fd5560ddafbd5ec18ad3db5b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0310402",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}