Pith Number

pith:REFQNUK4

pith:1996:REFQNUK4PJZ3FU7BVVHGY3VKWV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Spatial distribution of accreting isolated neutron stars

M.E. Prokhorov (Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University), S.B. Popov

arxiv:astro-ph/9609126 v1 · 1996-09-18 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{REFQNUK4PJZ3FU7BVVHGY3VKWV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:21:03.272377Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

890b06d15c7a73b2d3e1ad4e6c6eaab558e7103b229b9a3e8b6f574fbf44531f

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9609126 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9609126v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9609126 · pith_short_12: REFQNUK4PJZ3 · pith_short_16: REFQNUK4PJZ3FU7B · pith_short_8: REFQNUK4

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/REFQNUK4PJZ3FU7BVVHGY3VKWV \
  | 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: 890b06d15c7a73b2d3e1ad4e6c6eaab558e7103b229b9a3e8b6f574fbf44531f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "393a6d9ce8407b70cf9532d15559555ed0253d5b23e5703916730f90e5310a13",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-18T19:06:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5dbbef7cadd05ac225b8b2e374f79e00e2011c5499d9672f5ffda450df433b24"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9609126",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}