Pith Number

pith:MBHGHMWD

pith:2003:MBHGHMWDYZDAGF5UG7ANJ7HF2Q

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Three Spectral Regimes Found in the Stellar Black Hole XTE J1550--564 in its High/Soft State

(2) University of Tokyo), Astronautical Science, Aya Kubota (1), Kazuo Makishima (2) ((1) Institute of Space

arxiv:astro-ph/0310085 v1 · 2003-10-03 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MBHGHMWDYZDAGF5UG7ANJ7HF2Q}

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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	2026-07-04T16:37:28.495006Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

604e63b2c3c6460317b437c0d4fce5d40b9e44d1be648a1fa62ae29b2530d644

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0310085 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0310085v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0310085 · pith_short_12: MBHGHMWDYZDA · pith_short_16: MBHGHMWDYZDAGF5U · pith_short_8: MBHGHMWD

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/MBHGHMWDYZDAGF5UG7ANJ7HF2Q \
  | 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: 604e63b2c3c6460317b437c0d4fce5d40b9e44d1be648a1fa62ae29b2530d644

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a843ac81eb05a32cc8220942c63eeda831e6fa85979ad1e79c0070717cc55e3e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-10-03T07:11:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9fab33bc3fb7f3485a3dd36f167c052cc33a57657f57a742f001a0b5bee6b3f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0310085",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}