Pith Number

pith:L3PRQHQO

pith:2017:L3PRQHQOLPEA74XXF2QQG6QIHO

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Measuring the black hole mass in Ultraluminous X-ray Sources with the X-ray Scaling Method

I. Jang, L. Titarchuk, M. Gliozzi, S. Satyapal

arxiv:1708.05620 v1 · 2017-08-18 · astro-ph.HE

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:32:05.695862Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5edf181e0e5bc80ff2f72ea1037a083b90090a8eb4a47dedc65e01d8f6bb4c05

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.05620 · arxiv_version: 1708.05620v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.05620 · pith_short_12: L3PRQHQOLPEA · pith_short_16: L3PRQHQOLPEA74XX · pith_short_8: L3PRQHQO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/L3PRQHQOLPEA74XXF2QQG6QIHO \
  | 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: 5edf181e0e5bc80ff2f72ea1037a083b90090a8eb4a47dedc65e01d8f6bb4c05

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e0c2e662cb18a9fccc7f7c5706a0b772c0f2ff65b4ad2a1c59a7d4212ae3dc35",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-18T14:08:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5311fee6f0ed8185dc3539432c4e2a872834c01b9873f452906bc16c12cffbc5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.05620",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}