Pith Number

pith:J4665QWK

pith:2026:J4665QWKTRPX4MI4QQNZTRU4IE

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Do Accretion Disks Get Bent Out of Shape? Investigating the Origin of Rapid Fluctuations in the Tails of Long Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts

(2) Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, D.R. Ballantyne (1), Georgia Tech, N. Degenaar (2) ((1) Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, University of Amsterdam)

arxiv:2608.07758 v1 · 2026-08-07 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J4665QWKTRPX4MI4QQNZTRU4IE}

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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	2026-08-11T00:15:52.957461Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f3deec2ca9c5f7e311c841b99c69c41115bc40ea2c0becf6e5d9921038e9128

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.07758 · arxiv_version: 2608.07758v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.07758 · pith_short_12: J4665QWKTRPX · pith_short_16: J4665QWKTRPX4MI4 · pith_short_8: J4665QWK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J4665QWKTRPX4MI4QQNZTRU4IE \
  | 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: 4f3deec2ca9c5f7e311c841b99c69c41115bc40ea2c0becf6e5d9921038e9128

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "311a21b33af9381aee83052155b55d2b298b6c2593f1d5c8f20610b82735634c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T20:47:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d59db7c9a0588761e5bcaa1f8d671be0ddcd0962399f82cf267d0f371a73274"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.07758",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}