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pith:N5WGJBG2

pith:2016:N5WGJBG22LF44AIUBCL3XQMXDH
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The puzzling case of the radio-loud QSO 3C 186: a gravitational wave recoiling black hole in a young radio source?

A. Capetti, A. Marinucci, B. Hilbert, C. Norman, C. P. O'Dea, E. S. Perlman, E. T. Meyer, F. D. Macchetto, G. Miley, G. R. Tremblay, J. C. Ely, J. P. Kotyla, M. Chiaberge, M. Georganopoulos, S. A. Baum, S. Bianchi, W. B. Sparks

arxiv:1611.05501 v3 · 2016-11-16 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{N5WGJBG22LF44AIUBCL3XQMXDH}

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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.
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First computed 2026-05-18T00:47:08.396746Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f6c6484dad2cbce01140897bbc19719f7b90c1e1e7eaf9921c98ab56911ac0f

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.05501 · arxiv_version: 1611.05501v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.05501 · pith_short_12: N5WGJBG22LF4 · pith_short_16: N5WGJBG22LF44AIU · pith_short_8: N5WGJBG2
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N5WGJBG22LF44AIUBCL3XQMXDH \
  | 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: 6f6c6484dad2cbce01140897bbc19719f7b90c1e1e7eaf9921c98ab56911ac0f
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9552ad6a39e0db5a49dfc3109204ee7e7460862a5dc9995b56b6e43723c93a45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-16T23:28:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7787f266420850939c4cd36a6fd9550ed91901325c2d9b9674414eb349bc5cdd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.05501",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}