Pith Number

pith:IRBYEJSM

pith:2012:IRBYEJSMKA5KTFOCLE7DUGQ2XE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

X-ray Binaries in the Ultrahigh Encounter Rate Globular Cluster NGC 6388

Charles D. Bailyn, Craig O. Heinke, Gordon A. Drukier, Haldan N. Cohn, J. Edward Maxwell, Jonathan E. Grindlay, Phyllis M. Lugger, Sonia A. Budac

arxiv:1208.1426 v1 · 2012-08-07 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IRBYEJSMKA5KTFOCLE7DUGQ2XE}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:15:18.707478Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

444382264c503aa995c2593e3a1a1ab93bac187f44da6bb48e6db1498838929d

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.1426 · arxiv_version: 1208.1426v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.1426 · pith_short_12: IRBYEJSMKA5K · pith_short_16: IRBYEJSMKA5KTFOC · pith_short_8: IRBYEJSM

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/IRBYEJSMKA5KTFOCLE7DUGQ2XE \
  | 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: 444382264c503aa995c2593e3a1a1ab93bac187f44da6bb48e6db1498838929d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e2593a4ed71355cf4e2aa842db44ee6d697ebd53b62783276dfb15297cd1c2d1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-07T13:58:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f8036f8b3d62cad5dae756eaaeae50e339d02be67cf5d992efab5fa616a82780"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.1426",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}