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pith:DNG6AWEU

pith:2016:DNG6AWEUXCWSDJ4EN22ZMW673F

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Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

arxiv:1602.03843 v2 · 2016-02-11 · gr-qc · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.IM

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6 papers in Pith

Extracting Properties of Dark Dense Environments around Black Holes from Gravitational Waves

Testing the no-hair theorem with GW150914

Tests of General Relativity with the Binary Black Hole Signals from the LIGO-Virgo Catalog GWTC-1

Tests of General Relativity with Binary Black Holes from the second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:08:25.908136Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1b4de05894b8ad21a7846eb5965bdfd9745336dcba57f4c0c52245c78ae68291

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.03843 · arxiv_version: 1602.03843v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.03843 · pith_short_12: DNG6AWEUXCWS · pith_short_16: DNG6AWEUXCWSDJ4E · pith_short_8: DNG6AWEU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DNG6AWEUXCWSDJ4EN22ZMW673F \
  | 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: 1b4de05894b8ad21a7846eb5965bdfd9745336dcba57f4c0c52245c78ae68291

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-11T19:26:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50fde68121b9ec13316cdca5e2238bb32fed1d87350682ba585a3259d57cad04"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}