Pith Number

pith:MDMXZ2VY

pith:2008:MDMXZ2VYMTMP5REEK67KQHCXPD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Counterparts to the Nuclear Bulge X-ray source population

(2) University of Florida, (3) University of Hertfordshire), Andrew J. Gosling (1), Katherine M. Blundell (1), Phil Lucas (3) ((1) University of Oxford, Reba M. Bandyopadhyay (2)

arxiv:0806.4114 v1 · 2008-06-25 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MDMXZ2VYMTMP5REEK67KQHCXPD}

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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	2026-05-18T04:24:45.544627Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

60d97ceab864d8fec48457bea81c5778f11fcb38d955ef7282df7c44415801a2

Aliases

arxiv: 0806.4114 · arxiv_version: 0806.4114v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0806.4114 · pith_short_12: MDMXZ2VYMTMP · pith_short_16: MDMXZ2VYMTMP5REE · pith_short_8: MDMXZ2VY

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/MDMXZ2VYMTMP5REEK67KQHCXPD \
  | 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: 60d97ceab864d8fec48457bea81c5778f11fcb38d955ef7282df7c44415801a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "91f9506b8bea6150cd481abe502e265295fd74c6b8be1dad3a76846b4905e088",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-06-25T14:50:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc149084357d76eb931d501cd98196d5be116510c9c0ad11a3e0b40767c8042f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0806.4114",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}