Pith Number

pith:PCUOGCN5

pith:2026:PCUOGCN57PWBNRDUJ53Y44QM73

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Diverse Distribution of Black Hole Spins from Stable Mass Transfer

Eliot Quataert, Jakub Klencki, Lieke van Son, Linhao Ma

arxiv:2608.11311 v1 · 2026-08-11 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PCUOGCN57PWBNRDUJ53Y44QM73}

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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	2026-08-13T00:21:33.586747Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

78a8e309bdfbec16c4744f778e720cfefa5cb23ae780e40a1d4ed2998978eb7a

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.11311 · arxiv_version: 2608.11311v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.11311 · pith_short_12: PCUOGCN57PWB · pith_short_16: PCUOGCN57PWBNRDU · pith_short_8: PCUOGCN5

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/PCUOGCN57PWBNRDUJ53Y44QM73 \
  | 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: 78a8e309bdfbec16c4744f778e720cfefa5cb23ae780e40a1d4ed2998978eb7a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b31648144e0213b07f77473f61469cfbcc69fc35f1ca1174a68991c61b25fef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-11T18:01:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "acc69632d2f3fba335a21af4129efc097c9c4f99de310198245d307927dda058"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.11311",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}