Pith Number

pith:MRVVD46U

pith:2008:MRVVD46UYBVNAUGCSXI3LNHI5P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Infrared Afterglow of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers

Jeremy D. Schnittman, Julian H. Krolik (JHU)

arxiv:0802.3556 v2 · 2008-02-25 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MRVVD46UYBVNAUGCSXI3LNHI5P}

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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	2026-05-18T04:12:34.217444Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

646b51f3d4c06ad050c295d1b5b4e8ebef1f93f572741070ac134deda76f0aa8

Aliases

arxiv: 0802.3556 · arxiv_version: 0802.3556v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0802.3556 · pith_short_12: MRVVD46UYBVN · pith_short_16: MRVVD46UYBVNAUGC · pith_short_8: MRVVD46U

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/MRVVD46UYBVNAUGCSXI3LNHI5P \
  | 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: 646b51f3d4c06ad050c295d1b5b4e8ebef1f93f572741070ac134deda76f0aa8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc2f52615ad22ee9070305dee0781e68d6f7541ad88695b44d0342c752ec9aac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-02-25T04:08:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f62ad445358c90b806139bd4a2dae4eefa6ec1c98741ed501bd88ac03bb822c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0802.3556",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}