Pith Number

pith:RGXBMFWE

pith:2008:RGXBMFWECL6TVAHNBECU6CBJ7H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A new determination of the orbit and masses of the Be binary system delta Scorpii

A. Mendez, A. P. Jacob, E. B. Seneta, J. Davis, J. R. North, J. W. O'Byrne, P. G. Tuthill, W. J. Tango

arxiv:0811.4004 v1 · 2008-11-25 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RGXBMFWECL6TVAHNBECU6CBJ7H}

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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	2026-05-18T02:15:13.266654Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

89ae1616c412fd3a80ed09054f0829f9fdf2e566eea43018b5bab60bb2a82396

Aliases

arxiv: 0811.4004 · arxiv_version: 0811.4004v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0811.4004 · pith_short_12: RGXBMFWECL6T · pith_short_16: RGXBMFWECL6TVAHN · pith_short_8: RGXBMFWE

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/RGXBMFWECL6TVAHNBECU6CBJ7H \
  | 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: 89ae1616c412fd3a80ed09054f0829f9fdf2e566eea43018b5bab60bb2a82396

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4e92caf6037719557440a7c0d79cf85fba7f857aebd437c1ed40c0dc764a14b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-11-25T01:25:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c6c38036b869071c77955c6ed5979155c5ba99292a2485c5c27b8c2058a94471"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0811.4004",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}