Pith Number

pith:LMTK56LN

pith:1997:LMTK56LN6UDAVO4M6M6ENSAUZZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The massive white dwarf in the recurrent nova T CrB

B. Yudin, M. Somers, T. Naylor, T. Shahbaz

arxiv:astro-ph/9703146 v1 · 1997-03-23 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LMTK56LN6UDAVO4M6M6ENSAUZZ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:17.951533Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b26aef96df5060abb8cf33c46c814ce4852848830977b929fba799fbdc67ca4

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9703146 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9703146v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9703146 · pith_short_12: LMTK56LN6UDA · pith_short_16: LMTK56LN6UDAVO4M · pith_short_8: LMTK56LN

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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/LMTK56LN6UDAVO4M6M6ENSAUZZ \
  | 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: 5b26aef96df5060abb8cf33c46c814ce4852848830977b929fba799fbdc67ca4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ab22752098d9aacd864fc380db0e0e2f35dd79a9306b5266435dc2996acc8919",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-03-23T20:54:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "815303ed6aa4e3a945ba1d596fdb1b9187017e8dc21c6306d87b717c254755c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9703146",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}