Pith Number

pith:K5JNYJ4A

pith:2017:K5JNYJ4AETR4JDZHRR7F2FDXNN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Diffuse X-ray-emitting Gas in Major Mergers

Beverly J. Smith, Brianne Dunn, Curtis Struck, Douglas Swartz, Kristen Campbell, Macon Magno, Mark L. Giroux, Roberto Soria

arxiv:1712.04049 v1 · 2017-12-11 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K5JNYJ4AETR4JDZHRR7F2FDXNN}

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Record completeness

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3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:24:14.839808Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5752dc278024e3c48f278c7e5d14776b46432be6440d4168eab5be6bbc88c4e5

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.04049 · arxiv_version: 1712.04049v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.04049 · pith_short_12: K5JNYJ4AETR4 · pith_short_16: K5JNYJ4AETR4JDZH · pith_short_8: K5JNYJ4A

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/K5JNYJ4AETR4JDZHRR7F2FDXNN \
  | 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: 5752dc278024e3c48f278c7e5d14776b46432be6440d4168eab5be6bbc88c4e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7fe5a21115f7c9222df60a4fa5df503b30f039cdb1c3711fac54f029ec35879f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-11T22:05:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "67136e1425e968a07e00addb0f7d5b4e6473295040bdb6833fa89400e8f225cd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.04049",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}