Pith Number

pith:MHRNBKP4

pith:2017:MHRNBKP47WYEKBKROQOZK4FGOF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Pre-explosion spiral mass loss of a binary star merger

Brian D. Metzger, Jacob G. Tyles, Kengo Tomida, Ondrej Pejcha

arxiv:1710.02533 v3 · 2017-10-06 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MHRNBKP47WYEKBKROQOZK4FGOF}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T03:30:48.929959Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

61e2d0a9fcfdb0450551741d9570a67175c6e6526447547bb8519b06ab1dce1d

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.02533 · arxiv_version: 1710.02533v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.02533 · pith_short_12: MHRNBKP47WYE · pith_short_16: MHRNBKP47WYEKBKR · pith_short_8: MHRNBKP4

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/MHRNBKP47WYEKBKROQOZK4FGOF \
  | 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: 61e2d0a9fcfdb0450551741d9570a67175c6e6526447547bb8519b06ab1dce1d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d998208918c12921d598a99efaae7575abb1fe8bb707aa3e4436c4660299e4f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-06T18:00:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e6ffcb6cbee64e9fb4c98343912e03b92ac6fddbcd6527ce5f17bacddf0eca12"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.02533",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}