Pith Number

pith:MUT6BKPK

pith:2017:MUT6BKPKLBVWLINUSFMTYGPUQY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

SFXTs versus classical SgXBs: Does the difference lie in the companion wind?

Biswajit Paul, Enrico Bozzo, Pragati Pradhan

arxiv:1711.10510 v3 · 2017-11-28 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MUT6BKPKLBVWLINUSFMTYGPUQY}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:27.105528Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6527e0a9ea586b65a1b491593c19f4862f4201bb06ec537be8057092c468c2d3

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.10510 · arxiv_version: 1711.10510v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.10510 · pith_short_12: MUT6BKPKLBVW · pith_short_16: MUT6BKPKLBVWLINU · pith_short_8: MUT6BKPK

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/MUT6BKPKLBVWLINUSFMTYGPUQY \
  | 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: 6527e0a9ea586b65a1b491593c19f4862f4201bb06ec537be8057092c468c2d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "19acb609f122e60e9ee702a95edb91703789deeed3ef53bb072c3a328f205243",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-28T19:02:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1261c5824f579c3ada2784d718485cf9a3b1559dcf46e009c1887a201d5b5dbf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.10510",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}