Pith Number

pith:PLHQRJ2Z

pith:1999:PLHQRJ2ZW6BA5HUBGLJOVDHNNA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Study of the New X-ray Transient RXTE J2123-058 during its Post-Outburst State

Duncan Galloway, Kinwah Wu, Roberto Soria

arxiv:astro-ph/9906267 v1 · 1999-06-16 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PLHQRJ2ZW6BA5HUBGLJOVDHNNA}

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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	2026-07-04T16:11:19.359181Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7acf08a759b7820e9e8132d2ea8ced68383f9cf2830cb602ea69277b1df0ad3f

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9906267 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9906267v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9906267 · pith_short_12: PLHQRJ2ZW6BA · pith_short_16: PLHQRJ2ZW6BA5HUB · pith_short_8: PLHQRJ2Z

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/PLHQRJ2ZW6BA5HUBGLJOVDHNNA \
  | 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: 7acf08a759b7820e9e8132d2ea8ced68383f9cf2830cb602ea69277b1df0ad3f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae4192994f65a466877f0eec4088e4b7393ef69f8948b8fbbcd47b4b4a082c40",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-06-16T07:55:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f93cc2588da44bd26de2143de7e567db7e6b3c7632ed3abb17c42185cb793471"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9906267",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}