Pith Number

pith:QZIW5ZVT

pith:2023:QZIW5ZVTHRAN3YMQLEOKHS4XJZ

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Measuring Black Hole Spins through X-ray Reflection Spectroscopy and the Relativistic Precession Model: the case of XTE J1859+226

Cosimo Bambi, Gitika Mall, Honghui Liu, James F. Steiner, Javier A. Garcia

arxiv:2309.05018 v2 · 2023-09-10 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QZIW5ZVTHRAN3YMQLEOKHS4XJZ}

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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	2026-07-05T07:32:44.220463Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86516ee6b33c40dde190591ca3cb974e5764f7129e4f8c14a200666b047f6a21

Aliases

arxiv: 2309.05018 · arxiv_version: 2309.05018v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.05018 · pith_short_12: QZIW5ZVTHRAN · pith_short_16: QZIW5ZVTHRAN3YMQ · pith_short_8: QZIW5ZVT

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QZIW5ZVTHRAN3YMQLEOKHS4XJZ \
  | 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: 86516ee6b33c40dde190591ca3cb974e5764f7129e4f8c14a200666b047f6a21

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5fddb719c2f3e7a73edf664683287de2c423c00368f9d5ce64d567cc2cc3a91",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2023-09-10T12:43:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc7c8bf8a12994270feba2293a382dc9e4a025bbd0874bea371a4d3b4d2e9047"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2309.05018",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}