Pith Number

pith:H5YF25UE

pith:1998:H5YF25UEPTP2P3DPZOXURKQS7C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Black Hole and Neutron Star Transients in Quiescence

2), (2) DARC-CNRS, (3) Caltech), Ann A. Esin (3), Jean-Pierre Lasota (2), Jeffrey E. McClintock (1) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Kristen Menou (1, Michael R. Garcia (1), Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Ramesh Narayan (1)

arxiv:astro-ph/9810323 v2 · 1998-10-20 · astro-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H5YF25UEPTP2P3DPZOXURKQS7C}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-04T16:07:07.489654Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f705d76847cdfa7ec6fcbaf48aa12f8b99a9f84ef4e5f9fc6a93b0b86cc17d9

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9810323 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9810323v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9810323 · pith_short_12: H5YF25UEPTP2 · pith_short_16: H5YF25UEPTP2P3DP · pith_short_8: H5YF25UE

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/H5YF25UEPTP2P3DPZOXURKQS7C \
  | 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: 3f705d76847cdfa7ec6fcbaf48aa12f8b99a9f84ef4e5f9fc6a93b0b86cc17d9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f925ea507fca6d0f6e23bcbb0856c4ae0376ab6329d912ffaa18d86556bc1757",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-10-20T21:10:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "66b1da8345fff2af273ec2dd5db7eb44b45d853a528bd20dacd8e2135b4251eb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9810323",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}