Pith Number

pith:QUSSGOCZ

pith:2012:QUSSGOCZQDUIZJAMXA3ZMCQJFU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The black hole candidate MAXIJ1659-152 in and towards quiescence in X-ray and radio

E. Gallo, James C.A. Miller-Jones, J. Homan, J. Tomsick, Peter G. Jonker, P. Kaaret, R.P. Fender, S. Markoff

arxiv:1204.4832 v1 · 2012-04-21 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QUSSGOCZQDUIZJAMXA3ZMCQJFU}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:57:47.758823Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

852523385980e88ca40cb837960a092d2df3a0dd654f944361dc947c93958229

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.4832 · arxiv_version: 1204.4832v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.4832 · pith_short_12: QUSSGOCZQDUI · pith_short_16: QUSSGOCZQDUIZJAM · pith_short_8: QUSSGOCZ

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/QUSSGOCZQDUIZJAMXA3ZMCQJFU \
  | 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: 852523385980e88ca40cb837960a092d2df3a0dd654f944361dc947c93958229

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d767f62fdc7ea2a24626802cb0abc073ffb481739ac0305169cf8290cd106db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-21T18:47:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2cbdca342ee30c223a40658d4bc159528162e66eb98bcdb6c37bd9891f05d262"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.4832",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}