Pith Number

pith:DWDZYESB

pith:2001:DWDZYESBM2K5ICH2VSPZLQ7ZT5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dynamical Evidence for a Black Hole in the Microquasar XTE J1550-564

Charles D. Bailyn (Yale University), Jeffrey E. McClintock, Jerome A. Orosz (Utrecht University, Michael R. Garcia, Michiel van der Klis (University of Amsterdam, Paul J. Groot (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Ping Zhao (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Raj K. Jain, Ronald A. Remillard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the Netherlands)

arxiv:astro-ph/0112101 v1 · 2001-12-05 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DWDZYESBM2K5ICH2VSPZLQ7ZT5}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T04:13:06.102463Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1d879c12416695d408faac9f95c3f99f5e66a8b3aff5b234df52e2ca3f5ab65b

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0112101 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0112101v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0112101 · pith_short_12: DWDZYESBM2K5 · pith_short_16: DWDZYESBM2K5ICH2 · pith_short_8: DWDZYESB

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/DWDZYESBM2K5ICH2VSPZLQ7ZT5 \
  | 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: 1d879c12416695d408faac9f95c3f99f5e66a8b3aff5b234df52e2ca3f5ab65b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7dae33112a184715d3d54ecb5bb3996d071c4cd8334083ede6ba624696de5a11",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-12-05T09:48:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c4a60b6f7d1b8081743e5891e92e3a0fd53ae9f49e8343797e1af4515ba5cd9d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0112101",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}