Pith Number

pith:PFBQNKK4

pith:1996:PFBQNKK4IAJOX5YM4LYDFBOM5U

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spherical accretion onto neutron stars and black holes

(2) MPI Kernphysik, (3) University of Crete, A. Mastichiadis (2), Foundation for Research, George Mason University/CSI, Heidelberg, L. Titarchuk (1), N. D. Kylafis (3) ((1) NASA/GSFC, Technology- Hellas)

arxiv:astro-ph/9611084 v1 · 1996-11-12 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PFBQNKK4IAJOX5YM4LYDFBOM5U}

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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	2026-05-18T04:21:40.537000Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

794306a95c4012ebf70ce2f03285cced33bed91505e65ec3a0e7dddebbcd2683

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9611084 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9611084v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9611084 · pith_short_12: PFBQNKK4IAJO · pith_short_16: PFBQNKK4IAJOX5YM · pith_short_8: PFBQNKK4

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/PFBQNKK4IAJOX5YM4LYDFBOM5U \
  | 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: 794306a95c4012ebf70ce2f03285cced33bed91505e65ec3a0e7dddebbcd2683

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f02d961d7fb85a3c4d79511ebdaa549d2af02949a172328ffaa0bf485005c6ea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-11-12T12:32:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4dd1796d702b726e5c71a50a908a0f16f58b1bacfe962a1361916931b26466f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9611084",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}