Pith Number

pith:MME5EJQJ

pith:1997:MME5EJQJS7QRMCEBJR75LKPYMG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the origin of episodic accretion in Dwarf Novae

Charles F. Gammie, Kristen Menou (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

arxiv:astro-ph/9710250 v1 · 1997-10-22 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MME5EJQJS7QRMCEBJR75LKPYMG}

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4 Citations 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	2026-07-04T16:03:19.286723Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6309d2260997e11608814c7fd5a9f8618092aff7290b97ee636264ce07ce7ab4

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9710250 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9710250v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9710250 · pith_short_12: MME5EJQJS7QR · pith_short_16: MME5EJQJS7QRMCEB · pith_short_8: MME5EJQJ

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/MME5EJQJS7QRMCEBJR75LKPYMG \
  | 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: 6309d2260997e11608814c7fd5a9f8618092aff7290b97ee636264ce07ce7ab4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4de4ab2c3ead9752d90b14aa12e7a842d099cd6c2415ed6b5e478463ae3e63c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-10-22T22:28:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "117bd67b049f4e5cfa86f47e740fe7fff8d07e80f1935d04360fcb1cdd98614a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9710250",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}