Pith Number

pith:IC7AAYBA

pith:2005:IC7AAYBAOPIZKJ4YFYVL77WQVA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Soft X-ray Transient in the M31 Bulge

Benjamin F. Williams, Frank A. Primini, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Michael R. Garcia, Stephen S. Murray

arxiv:astro-ph/0510189 v1 · 2005-10-06 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IC7AAYBAOPIZKJ4YFYVL77WQVA}

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:25.729418Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40be00602073d19527982e2abffed0a836772c14146c928221ea193764ec5919

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0510189 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0510189v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0510189 · pith_short_12: IC7AAYBAOPIZ · pith_short_16: IC7AAYBAOPIZKJ4Y · pith_short_8: IC7AAYBA

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/IC7AAYBAOPIZKJ4YFYVL77WQVA \
  | 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: 40be00602073d19527982e2abffed0a836772c14146c928221ea193764ec5919

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c0152c7ba1774669cfda80670520f4c232439c75d5cdfb140ba4929a1084410",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-10-06T18:10:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "61034c52b5d7a50e00132fe049e19de9ccb44d7cad006ec1e4f0b320d38313ea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0510189",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}