Pith Number

pith:P52XFZFX

pith:2012:P52XFZFXOGZ5NBWTNTC2KDH7BU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distribution of High-Mass X-ray Binaries in the Milky Way

Alexis Coleiro, Sylvain Chaty

arxiv:1212.5460 v2 · 2012-12-21 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P52XFZFXOGZ5NBWTNTC2KDH7BU}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T03:34:15.796449Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7f7572e4b771b3d686d36cc5a50cff0d1f2a33aa6da7aa0585912c97eb1b09f4

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.5460 · arxiv_version: 1212.5460v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.5460 · pith_short_12: P52XFZFXOGZ5 · pith_short_16: P52XFZFXOGZ5NBWT · pith_short_8: P52XFZFX

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/P52XFZFXOGZ5NBWTNTC2KDH7BU \
  | 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: 7f7572e4b771b3d686d36cc5a50cff0d1f2a33aa6da7aa0585912c97eb1b09f4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "016ca8312893330636cdcf1fa4a587ecd53d02717242dc70342439a296d098f1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-21T14:28:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "525dfc6d9b086a4db45f59a3cbdc1df0d33ac21134fc375966951fbba9fd90d6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.5460",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}