Pith Number

pith:JFKQEFRL

pith:2005:JFKQEFRLS3LW3K6KLBNHL6EVNW

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On the Production and Survival of Carbon Fuel for Superbursts on Accreting Neutron Stars: Implications for Mass Donor Evolution

Banibrata Mukhopadhyay, Danny Steeghs, Ramesh Narayan, Randall L. Cooper

arxiv:astro-ph/0508194 v2 · 2005-08-08 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{JFKQEFRLS3LW3K6KLBNHL6EVNW}

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First computed	2026-07-04T17:14:59.340127Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

495502162b96d76dabca585a75f8956db2769c8ee858607130f816cea3dc5e53

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0508194 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0508194v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0508194 · pith_short_12: JFKQEFRLS3LW · pith_short_16: JFKQEFRLS3LW3K6K · pith_short_8: JFKQEFRL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JFKQEFRLS3LW3K6KLBNHL6EVNW \
  | 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: 495502162b96d76dabca585a75f8956db2769c8ee858607130f816cea3dc5e53

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d285a9324dc442c4af38125722579a24e54bc0ead3c69db40096788f7be27c41",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-08-08T20:22:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c1586b953087f4bcf4e6e33a3d0196fb2a02695de63ff2655b8febd10c7b173e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0508194",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}