Pith Number

pith:NNSQ6DAM

pith:2020:NNSQ6DAMPRBRVRQGEIZVKYPWFZ

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ASASSN-15lh: a TDE about a maximally rotating $10^9 M_{\odot}$ black hole

Andrew Mummery, Steven Balbus

arxiv:2006.00803 v1 · 2020-06-01 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NNSQ6DAMPRBRVRQGEIZVKYPWFZ}

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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	2026-07-05T01:08:55.867423Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b650f0c0c7c431ac60622335561f62e56fc9db70eb977f8a8243bb3240ac398

Aliases

arxiv: 2006.00803 · arxiv_version: 2006.00803v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2006.00803 · pith_short_12: NNSQ6DAMPRBR · pith_short_16: NNSQ6DAMPRBRVRQG · pith_short_8: NNSQ6DAM

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/NNSQ6DAMPRBRVRQGEIZVKYPWFZ \
  | 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: 6b650f0c0c7c431ac60622335561f62e56fc9db70eb977f8a8243bb3240ac398

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cfc4c74723dffe773f5e08596b31f2281f6710293a1abb538f310e8ea851ca03",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2020-06-01T09:11:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "407efdab56919897fdd85c8f7ec1550d441161fdf4814699364a179cf26fb1c5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2006.00803",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}