Pith Number

pith:CVHB7D3A

pith:2016:CVHB7D3AF3EYJVYUH735NVLOK2

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On similarity of binary black hole gravitational-wave skymaps: to observe or to wait?

Erik Katsavounidis, Gabriele Vedovato, Reed Essick, Salvatore Vitale, Sergey Klimenko

arxiv:1611.02438 v2 · 2016-11-08 · gr-qc · astro-ph.HE

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\pithnumber{CVHB7D3AF3EYJVYUH735NVLOK2}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:53:06.907509Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

154e1f8f602ec984d7143ff7d6d56e568602440fad55cfb80a01fd9a70f82719

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.02438 · arxiv_version: 1611.02438v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.02438 · pith_short_12: CVHB7D3AF3EY · pith_short_16: CVHB7D3AF3EYJVYU · pith_short_8: CVHB7D3A

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CVHB7D3AF3EYJVYUH735NVLOK2 \
  | 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: 154e1f8f602ec984d7143ff7d6d56e568602440fad55cfb80a01fd9a70f82719

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d2bedcb1e108a78dd8f345899f0990f84a60a642e8b1371b6ae7eed0956108c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-08T09:16:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c9693ebaa540dc781a33665072ca31a46f1c3e4a90ea81d687f9aa60afaad57b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.02438",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}