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pith:MOB3FNOV

pith:2005:MOB3FNOVQUJAAEKBFEYFP2NQJR

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Close Binary Interactions of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes: Possible Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources?

(2) New Mexico State University), F. Rasio (1) ((1) Northwestern University, J. Fregeau (1), K. Belczynski (2), L. Blecha (1), N. Ivanova (1), V. Kalogera (1)

arxiv:astro-ph/0508597 v1 · 2005-08-28 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{MOB3FNOVQUJAAEKBFEYFP2NQJR}

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Detecting Intermediate-mass Black Holes Using Miniature Pulsar Timing Arrays in Globular Clusters

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First computed	2026-07-04T17:15:04.441097Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6383b2b5d58512001141293057e9b04c47e871fdb3e342fc86575ed9502472cd

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0508597 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0508597v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0508597 · pith_short_12: MOB3FNOVQUJA · pith_short_16: MOB3FNOVQUJAAEKB · pith_short_8: MOB3FNOV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MOB3FNOVQUJAAEKBFEYFP2NQJR \
  | 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: 6383b2b5d58512001141293057e9b04c47e871fdb3e342fc86575ed9502472cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "84d1ce4675d0788e6aaff27b09128c09563b1d80bb5536c9a7151b50aa4f1247",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-08-28T03:43:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "962c0b15a9c81725b2762d420739b9965c8dd8d377ebcbd59f73e9051218f1e9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0508597",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}