Pith Number

pith:KYL6ZNTX

pith:1996:KYL6ZNTXCMWFFT3UZGN3DDC6UJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Wolf-Rayet counterpart of Cygnus X-3

Caltech), D.L. King (RGO), J. van Paradijs (U. Amsterdam, M.H. van Kerkwijk (U. Amsterdam, M. van der Klis (U. Amsterdam), T.R. Geballe (Joint Astronomy Centre), U. Alabama)

arxiv:astro-ph/9604100 v1 · 1996-04-17 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{KYL6ZNTXCMWFFT3UZGN3DDC6UJ}

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3 papers in Pith

The counterjet dominates the production of PeV photons from Cyg X-3

A bright flare in the obscured state of GRS 1915+105 as seen by NICER and Swift

Adiabatic Mass Loss In Binary Stars. VI. Massive Helium Binary Stars

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:14:44.088704Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5617ecb677132c52cf74c99bb18c5ea245319f2bd2891dab25d4051c068ca2eb

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9604100 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9604100v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9604100 · pith_short_12: KYL6ZNTXCMWF · pith_short_16: KYL6ZNTXCMWFFT3U · pith_short_8: KYL6ZNTX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KYL6ZNTXCMWFFT3UZGN3DDC6UJ \
  | 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: 5617ecb677132c52cf74c99bb18c5ea245319f2bd2891dab25d4051c068ca2eb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27ab9a1eddb0f89c7bd8b83fcd1082bc5cf59bc72155fade7f7fb831793715f7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-04-17T21:57:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "49346a6ba0fa5d4a9f3ffa748480855bca50480db59f3529732cf486cc1b328f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9604100",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}