Pith Number

pith:KBSGMUQB

pith:2012:KBSGMUQBV3GWKCTVSPKN4XMS6E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Probing the X-Ray Binary Populations of the Ring Galaxy NGC 1291

A. Zezas, B. Luo, D.-W. Kim, G. Fabbiano, Junfeng Wang, K. Belczynski, N. J. Brassington, P. Tzanavaris, S. Pellegrini, T. Fragos

arxiv:1202.2358 v1 · 2012-02-10 · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KBSGMUQBV3GWKCTVSPKN4XMS6E}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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	2026-05-18T01:58:31.167732Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5064665201aecd650a7593d4de5d92f13603a3ca1f41b7a53a372100658c1192

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.2358 · arxiv_version: 1202.2358v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.2358 · pith_short_12: KBSGMUQBV3GW · pith_short_16: KBSGMUQBV3GWKCTV · pith_short_8: KBSGMUQB

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/KBSGMUQBV3GWKCTVSPKN4XMS6E \
  | 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: 5064665201aecd650a7593d4de5d92f13603a3ca1f41b7a53a372100658c1192

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14c4ce152d3683c2f044493d5af50ecb36b9767c8318785741e90ff4156f87e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-10T21:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "616f5daf169126aa6213286cee0cd864e4ba48abdf742b1497fe0691c53bef76"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.2358",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}