Pith Number

pith:PIH2AUAK

pith:1999:PIH2AUAKLKVL46BY2OMQRRFUET

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The USA X-ray Timing Experiment

B. Giebels, D.A. Leahy, D. Chakrabarty, D. Yentis, E.D. Bloom, G. Fritz, G.Godfrey, G. Shabad, J. Beall, J. Scargle, K. Reilly, K.S. Wood, L. Cominsky, M. Kowalski, M.N. Lovellette, M. Roberts, M.T. Wolff, P. Hertz, P. Michelson, P. Saz Parkinson, P. S. Ray, R. M. Bandyopadhyay, W.N. Johnson, Y. Kim

arxiv:astro-ph/9911236 v1 · 1999-11-13 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PIH2AUAKLKVL46BY2OMQRRFUET}

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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	2026-07-04T14:17:19.074263Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7a0fa0500a5aaabe7838d39908c4b424cafafc85a0f231117f31b91dd3ae9edf

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9911236 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9911236v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9911236 · pith_short_12: PIH2AUAKLKVL · pith_short_16: PIH2AUAKLKVL46BY · pith_short_8: PIH2AUAK

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/PIH2AUAKLKVL46BY2OMQRRFUET \
  | 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: 7a0fa0500a5aaabe7838d39908c4b424cafafc85a0f231117f31b91dd3ae9edf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5fbf39058ab04145529f84aa09973accaaf70cd09a71529d3e22d72ab8f70a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-11-13T01:23:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3b0a01e3eda69458a17f3fae0390edb6139837932b273a14dbcffc7977010e82"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9911236",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}