Pith Number

pith:LKXR2AJO

pith:2013:LKXR2AJORITPUI3A4ALAOMHAKH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A bright thermonuclear X-ray burst simultaneously observed with Chandra and RXTE

A. Patruno (UvA), CfA), D. K. Galloway (Monash Univ.), D. M. Palmer (LANL), D. R. Ballantyne (Georgia Tech), F. B. S. Paerels (Columbia Univ.), H. L. Marshall (MIT), J. J. M. in t Zand (SRON), N. N. Weinberg (MIT), P. G. Jonker (SRON, Radboud Univ.

arxiv:1301.2232 v2 · 2013-01-10 · astro-ph.HE

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:52:13.761681Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5aaf1d012e8a26fa2360e0160730e051e5346d3923487e61208fde3e4d05e558

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.2232 · arxiv_version: 1301.2232v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.2232 · pith_short_12: LKXR2AJORITP · pith_short_16: LKXR2AJORITPUI3A · pith_short_8: LKXR2AJO

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LKXR2AJORITPUI3A4ALAOMHAKH \
  | 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: 5aaf1d012e8a26fa2360e0160730e051e5346d3923487e61208fde3e4d05e558

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0b353238c3d20555e2824cdbd3e1bd68528f485834e34c72cb516eb74bac5e9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-10T19:57:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "93992b8265c1431aede4d835460114eb8159699872fc9b5422927f649258f034"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.2232",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}