Pith Number

pith:LXVN3GCC

pith:1996:LXVN3GCCBXWGJOFZ4WPNEEWMVU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Close Approach during Hard Binary--Binary Scattering

Cambridge), D. Bacon, M.B. Davies (IoA, S. Sigurdsson

arxiv:astro-ph/9603036 v1 · 1996-03-11 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LXVN3GCCBXWGJOFZ4WPNEEWMVU}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:21.652166Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5deadd98420dec64b8b9e59ed212ccad1866457885a96f562c3d4dc4533d5ca2

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9603036 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9603036v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9603036 · pith_short_12: LXVN3GCCBXWG · pith_short_16: LXVN3GCCBXWGJOFZ · pith_short_8: LXVN3GCC

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/LXVN3GCCBXWGJOFZ4WPNEEWMVU \
  | 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: 5deadd98420dec64b8b9e59ed212ccad1866457885a96f562c3d4dc4533d5ca2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6d9a8293298bd472e55a88a1a400a295b7f4e847e3449dab6335f070f70684e9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-03-11T10:21:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ee91ef9c9476a2e2c4fb691c89a769c86fd27d0a0b99ae8f3f81dd3377d7425"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9603036",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}