Pith Number

pith:IOWTHBUA

pith:2017:IOWTHBUAOJ27EJBW7J4NAJHCTE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Swift observations of SMC X-3 during its 2016-2017 super-Eddington outburst

Hai-Hui Zhao, Ming-Yu Ge, Qi-Rong Yuan, Shan-Shan Weng, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Wei-Hao Bian, Wei Wang

arxiv:1701.02983 v2 · 2017-01-11 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IOWTHBUAOJ27EJBW7J4NAJHCTE}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:40:07.496975Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

43ad3386807275f22436fa78d024e29918d72ab90823768a7c0574abdc191c1f

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.02983 · arxiv_version: 1701.02983v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.02983 · pith_short_12: IOWTHBUAOJ27 · pith_short_16: IOWTHBUAOJ27EJBW · pith_short_8: IOWTHBUA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IOWTHBUAOJ27EJBW7J4NAJHCTE \
  | 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: 43ad3386807275f22436fa78d024e29918d72ab90823768a7c0574abdc191c1f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "67d3c87951b3fd392436761ba98ea010a8d7c47fabe19811781834cbc608ebd9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-11T14:20:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da906df5dc6aea7de98ca680a3a4ec6ba7afe37e7fbc9e6336e9b624e69c649a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.02983",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}