Pith Number

pith:NE4EERD3

pith:2016:NE4EERD3QOLFQVB5MMMKUYL6O6

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An Empirical Method for Improving the Quality of RXTE HEXTE Spectra

James F. Steiner, Javier A. Garc\'ia, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Katja Pottschmidt, Richard E. Rothschild, Victoria Grinberg

arxiv:1601.06174 v1 · 2016-01-22 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.HE

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\pithnumber{NE4EERD3QOLFQVB5MMMKUYL6O6}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:09:45.584901Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

693842447b839658543d6318aa617e778569a81deec0727b4a0caccdff388b53

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.06174 · arxiv_version: 1601.06174v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.06174 · pith_short_12: NE4EERD3QOLF · pith_short_16: NE4EERD3QOLFQVB5 · pith_short_8: NE4EERD3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NE4EERD3QOLFQVB5MMMKUYL6O6 \
  | 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: 693842447b839658543d6318aa617e778569a81deec0727b4a0caccdff388b53

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "59c654341255b698f82904b96672fe7fcb4226cb7d87286db2701e2bb5bc943c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-22T21:15:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e45f5aca4f4d3779772b8892732ab9b35bd9c211b31ac5af09a66df4e33b739f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.06174",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}