Pith Number

pith:E5OJYM5X

pith:2012:E5OJYM5X2YOG3CCTSUGWOUWAWK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spectral evolution of the X-ray nova XTE J1859+226 during its outburst observed by BeppoSAX and RXTE

C. Brocksopp, C. Lombardi, E. Palazzi, F. Frontera, L. Amati, M. Orlandini, N. Masetti, N. Shaposhnikov, R. Farinelli, R. Landi

arxiv:1211.1270 v1 · 2012-11-06 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E5OJYM5X2YOG3CCTSUGWOUWAWK}

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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	2026-05-18T01:53:24.994205Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

275c9c33b7d61c6d8853950d6752c0b2bb2f1ed1c4ec0e054616d94b393865f8

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.1270 · arxiv_version: 1211.1270v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.1270 · pith_short_12: E5OJYM5X2YOG · pith_short_16: E5OJYM5X2YOG3CCT · pith_short_8: E5OJYM5X

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/E5OJYM5X2YOG3CCTSUGWOUWAWK \
  | 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: 275c9c33b7d61c6d8853950d6752c0b2bb2f1ed1c4ec0e054616d94b393865f8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a7405fbb3245a02964baa239dcc9e75ac4e328676d4acfa2ce2a660519f985e0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-06T15:40:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "698d7f3937e54178b44b022a6c7c1f976d043f7d77f0382726f8ef7fe912cf1c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.1270",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}