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pith:L23KGMI5

pith:2000:L23KGMI56ZC3M6U65DQQRKNHLA

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A Central Engine for Cosmic Gamma-Ray Burst Sources

L. Tao (Columbia Astronomy), M.A. Ruderman (Columbia Physics), Warsaw), W. Kluzniak (Copernicus Astronomical Center

arxiv:astro-ph/0003462 v2 · 2000-03-30 · astro-ph

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On the Duration of Gamma-Ray Bursts

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:16:14.642433Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5eb6a3311df645b67a9ee8e108a9a7581bdf5d2446c66fa5ec12a5ef0b1f7b86

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0003462 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0003462v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0003462 · pith_short_12: L23KGMI56ZC3 · pith_short_16: L23KGMI56ZC3M6U6 · pith_short_8: L23KGMI5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/L23KGMI56ZC3M6U65DQQRKNHLA \
  | 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: 5eb6a3311df645b67a9ee8e108a9a7581bdf5d2446c66fa5ec12a5ef0b1f7b86

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ecc2b90ed33061c2ed9fa0a93439a6fb0ebce2ebbe532b7212ed9fe356577211",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-03-30T22:45:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bacb520d9b68003ed052d6f77fafb9c2a9ed3e8216b25f5468a0f6f70f08f234"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0003462",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}