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pith:IJA4HWGJ

pith:2020:IJA4HWGJW3JME4D3VFS4HFICFE

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Does Matter Matter? Using the mass distribution to distinguish neutron stars and black holes

Daniel E. Holz, Maya Fishbach, Reed Essick

arxiv:2006.13178 v2 · 2020-06-23 · astro-ph.HE · gr-qc

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GWTC-2.1: Deep Extended Catalog of Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:25:13.095467Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4241c3d8c9b6d2c2707ba965c395022931d07be17f8a7573b2089f06f30f06cd

Aliases

arxiv: 2006.13178 · arxiv_version: 2006.13178v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2006.13178 · pith_short_12: IJA4HWGJW3JM · pith_short_16: IJA4HWGJW3JME4D3 · pith_short_8: IJA4HWGJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IJA4HWGJW3JME4D3VFS4HFICFE \
  | 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: 4241c3d8c9b6d2c2707ba965c395022931d07be17f8a7573b2089f06f30f06cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2020-06-23T17:27:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c56cc6b5e413db8c90faeeb834f80c1448e9be86018ff464f520ca04fa31883"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}