Pith Number

pith:KLKB2E6A

pith:1995:KLKB2E6AAFEXZ2XURVS3DQ7UJC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Models of Quiescent Black Hole Neutron Star Soft X-Ray Transients

Didier Barret, Insu Yi, & Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ramesh Narayan

arxiv:astro-ph/9509139 v1 · 1995-09-27 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KLKB2E6AAFEXZ2XURVS3DQ7UJC}

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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	2026-05-18T04:21:40.879385Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

52d41d13c001497ceaf48d65b1c3f448bc2bdae52a46cb789d9d9ba51e79b6ff

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9509139 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9509139v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9509139 · pith_short_12: KLKB2E6AAFEX · pith_short_16: KLKB2E6AAFEXZ2XU · pith_short_8: KLKB2E6A

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/KLKB2E6AAFEXZ2XURVS3DQ7UJC \
  | 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: 52d41d13c001497ceaf48d65b1c3f448bc2bdae52a46cb789d9d9ba51e79b6ff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "07a583cff690241eeb8e2358309be7e72551541eb0fe6da1419b5fb31ac6036f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1995-09-27T13:31:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "21d28a6620745aebb8a26563199c93956d8c9f67a2fac9e689652f5c07f3a436"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9509139",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}