Pith Number

pith:LWS2FVXP

pith:2011:LWS2FVXP36VV4YPTSVG42AAPO5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Swift Observations of MAXI J1659-152: A Compact Binary with a Black Hole Accretor

A.P. Beardmore, C.B. Markwardt, H.A. Krimm, J.A. Kennea, K.Yamaoka, P.A. Curran, P.A. Evans, P. Romano, V. Mangano

arxiv:1104.5228 v2 · 2011-04-27 · astro-ph.HE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state What is a Pith Number?

Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:02:13.905089Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5da5a2d6efdfab5e61f3954dcd000f77627a70ba09c1383d560800a637959134

Aliases

arxiv: 1104.5228 · arxiv_version: 1104.5228v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1104.5228 · pith_short_12: LWS2FVXP36VV · pith_short_16: LWS2FVXP36VV4YPT · pith_short_8: LWS2FVXP

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/LWS2FVXP36VV4YPTSVG42AAPO5 \
  | 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: 5da5a2d6efdfab5e61f3954dcd000f77627a70ba09c1383d560800a637959134

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7e0e9c7d64e126e6f5af62f92d9044e12ade292dd0e18d9af069e039c2ab16fc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2011-04-27T20:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2f4e93b172934a18e1a86ccee30342ea00862d720ebebfdb48dded1337f0f3da"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1104.5228",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}