Pith Number

pith:MBSIGWNW

pith:2008:MBSIGWNWW6H6IRM6RJL3Y7MSAX

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Gamma-rays from the vicinity of accreting neutron stars inside compact high-mass X-ray binaries

W. Bednarek

arxiv:0811.4057 v1 · 2008-11-25 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MBSIGWNWW6H6IRM6RJL3Y7MSAX}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:20:33.281920Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

60648359b6b78fe4459e8a57bc7d9205ef043829b6f6b38baf18a1cda256f1b5

Aliases

arxiv: 0811.4057 · arxiv_version: 0811.4057v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0811.4057 · pith_short_12: MBSIGWNWW6H6 · pith_short_16: MBSIGWNWW6H6IRM6 · pith_short_8: MBSIGWNW

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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/MBSIGWNWW6H6IRM6RJL3Y7MSAX \
  | 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: 60648359b6b78fe4459e8a57bc7d9205ef043829b6f6b38baf18a1cda256f1b5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "69ffd48af114d1d8c01eeec8e70e32c0216db863889d4be99cbd1ab5a854a206",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-11-25T11:29:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba39cb3783480ab0895f16ac4b569460336c9a461840e2b27d709bde36ef9b31"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0811.4057",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}