Pith Number

pith:JUYVKRXJ

pith:2014:JUYVKRXJ6DDEV5MM5HAR3IHWDB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An accretion disc instability induced by a temperature sensitive $\alpha$ parameter

Steven A. Balbus, William J. Potter

arxiv:1404.0013 v2 · 2014-03-31 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JUYVKRXJ6DDEV5MM5HAR3IHWDB}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:36.832680Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4d315546e9f0c64af58ce9c11da0f6187f1b8618b525805a1345357ee02b6c9b

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.0013 · arxiv_version: 1404.0013v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.0013 · pith_short_12: JUYVKRXJ6DDE · pith_short_16: JUYVKRXJ6DDEV5MM · pith_short_8: JUYVKRXJ

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/JUYVKRXJ6DDEV5MM5HAR3IHWDB \
  | 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: 4d315546e9f0c64af58ce9c11da0f6187f1b8618b525805a1345357ee02b6c9b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30feb5337152e457401a391d946985878ba5904ecd114e47d5df0c0499909e8f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-31T20:00:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3575c1e33e8ff1ca44d6ae3b75bd193d1dc46301b426aa958c6b6ca9141c02f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.0013",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}