Pith Number

pith:NJDXILOX

pith:2009:NJDXILOXO77B6PTVWCMSG2MZTC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optical Flares from the Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes

Eliot Quataert, Linda E. Strubbe

arxiv:0905.3735 v2 · 2009-05-22 · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NJDXILOXO77B6PTVWCMSG2MZTC}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:13:37.939733Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a47742dd777fe1f3e75b0992369999896f3c88afe9da559f1863eb84fe69f50

Aliases

arxiv: 0905.3735 · arxiv_version: 0905.3735v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0905.3735 · pith_short_12: NJDXILOXO77B · pith_short_16: NJDXILOXO77B6PTV · pith_short_8: NJDXILOX

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/NJDXILOXO77B6PTVWCMSG2MZTC \
  | 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: 6a47742dd777fe1f3e75b0992369999896f3c88afe9da559f1863eb84fe69f50

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4f6a964485946ac2ba5b5144d5fe8955b4f85850b4e820c4dec3e4b564dd8910",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2009-05-22T19:44:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a9e5cbf31fba921d381627d31392102dfa542c5865a791bebdd644262af04ce5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0905.3735",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}