Pith Number

pith:LV274MBX

pith:2010:LV274MBXN5Z7HMWB4FYND2ISBE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Looking into the heart of a beast: the black hole binary LS 5039

G. E. Sarty, L. L. Kiss, T. Szalai

arxiv:1002.4402 v1 · 2010-02-23 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LV274MBXN5Z7HMWB4FYND2ISBE}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:08:57.652288Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d75fe30376f73f3b2c1e170d1e912091715b8fa539638c90749862f7fa3c567

Aliases

arxiv: 1002.4402 · arxiv_version: 1002.4402v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1002.4402 · pith_short_12: LV274MBXN5Z7 · pith_short_16: LV274MBXN5Z7HMWB · pith_short_8: LV274MBX

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LV274MBXN5Z7HMWB4FYND2ISBE \
  | 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: 5d75fe30376f73f3b2c1e170d1e912091715b8fa539638c90749862f7fa3c567

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "43ae66f61d37352ff161b2c8f97737a920a3666073a57b6b50b1c30ce14b9bb2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2010-02-23T20:32:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de33de1a9975f0696fd25ee9b2ecaf574d46c57bc4a867fd97a381ecbfe9b562"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1002.4402",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}