Pith Number

pith:HDDMQJKC

pith:2015:HDDMQJKCLKJ3RK42NNRHMPN4U3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Accretion disk dynamo as the trigger for X-ray binary state transitions

Christopher S. Reynolds, Mitchell C. Begelman, Philip J. Armitage

arxiv:1507.03996 v2 · 2015-07-14 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HDDMQJKCLKJ3RK42NNRHMPN4U3}

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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	2026-05-18T01:35:06.949156Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

38c6c825425a93b8ab9a6b62763dbca6d2c783290566fcd674f039f67dee3fef

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.03996 · arxiv_version: 1507.03996v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.03996 · pith_short_12: HDDMQJKCLKJ3 · pith_short_16: HDDMQJKCLKJ3RK42 · pith_short_8: HDDMQJKC

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/HDDMQJKCLKJ3RK42NNRHMPN4U3 \
  | 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: 38c6c825425a93b8ab9a6b62763dbca6d2c783290566fcd674f039f67dee3fef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e0465301bd3eb69dc58df8ed834c26d6a0a4660eedc5d4783aa38fba538c462",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-14T20:00:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db0d87da74865f28773977bf7f36b86d852c27e2bea440a212af8281cf62eed4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.03996",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}