Pith Number

pith:ND434PWS

pith:2000:ND434PWSABUF773OMNXWOVXLDB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery and Photometric Observation of the Optical Counterpart in a Possible Galactic Halo X-ray Transient, XTE J1118+480

D. Buczynski, G. Masi, H. Yamaoka, K. Haseda, K. Matsumoto, K. Takamizawa, Lewis M. Cook, M. Uemura, T. Kato, Y. Sano

arxiv:astro-ph/0004245 v2 · 2000-04-18 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ND434PWSABUF773OMNXWOVXLDB}

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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	2026-07-04T14:10:18.682024Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

68f9be3ed200685fff6e636f6756eb18705ff60b61a444fecf11a3722961bdb4

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0004245 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0004245v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0004245 · pith_short_12: ND434PWSABUF · pith_short_16: ND434PWSABUF773O · pith_short_8: ND434PWS

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/ND434PWSABUF773OMNXWOVXLDB \
  | 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: 68f9be3ed200685fff6e636f6756eb18705ff60b61a444fecf11a3722961bdb4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "055868b535bdc78841900e80adb89352c0564c724c5c5749672add368721e441",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2000-04-18T03:27:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5f72eb58da1ef426aa5ccbe7d6eabbcd0d0d61b7d56e7df01acc8ce3971597ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0004245",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}