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pith:K5WTL3X6

pith:2016:K5WTL3X6KNDFFM2O5DIIJIVPBG

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Astrophysical Implications of the Binary Black-Hole Merger GW150914

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

arxiv:1602.03846 v1 · 2016-02-11 · astro-ph.HE · gr-qc

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4 Citations open

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6 papers in Pith

Retrieving the True Masses of Gravitational-wave Sources

Waveform Modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): massive star variability revealed using a novel software tool for point-spread function fitting of TESS images

Bayesian inference for compact binary coalescences with BILBY: Validation and application to the first LIGO--Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalogue

Population Properties of Binary Black Holes with Eccentricity

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:20:38.065153Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

576d35eefe534652b34ee8d084a2af09946c9c9f2f2a8bb9e1bdab8e140f85dd

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.03846 · arxiv_version: 1602.03846v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.03846 · pith_short_12: K5WTL3X6KNDF · pith_short_16: K5WTL3X6KNDFFM2O · pith_short_8: K5WTL3X6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/K5WTL3X6KNDFFM2O5DIIJIVPBG \
  | 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: 576d35eefe534652b34ee8d084a2af09946c9c9f2f2a8bb9e1bdab8e140f85dd

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-11T19:26:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c47dfc73444a758fc17b01e3251b9acfe52af9eeba1eba4be747b7f5c672a76"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}