Pith Number

pith:NBECVCN3

pith:2015:NBECVCN3LCEPC5NY4LYBP6SWCS

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The Close Stellar Companions to Intermediate Mass Black Holes

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Michele Trenti, Morgan MacLeod

arxiv:1508.07000 v2 · 2015-08-27 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NBECVCN3LCEPC5NY4LYBP6SWCS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:19:02.058809Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

68482a89bb5888f175b8e2f017fa5614b143fc4ea98187accecdf99d71cb4dc8

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.07000 · arxiv_version: 1508.07000v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.07000 · pith_short_12: NBECVCN3LCEP · pith_short_16: NBECVCN3LCEPC5NY · pith_short_8: NBECVCN3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NBECVCN3LCEPC5NY4LYBP6SWCS \
  | 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: 68482a89bb5888f175b8e2f017fa5614b143fc4ea98187accecdf99d71cb4dc8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "49cc85509a27cb69588bf600fdf68c3b8c6e3b74c6496b7976aecacb7ebc29a8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-27T20:08:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a32d3582894c2a0f298ec7023808a87b3aeef0d7e7a6715d52294f7b47c5f757"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.07000",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}