Pith Number

pith:RIAAJHLW

pith:2010:RIAAJHLWL3VEFK6F2LYBULDFKY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

No evidence for black hole spin powering of jets in X-ray binaries

David Russell (Amsterdam), Elena Gallo (MIT), Grenoble), Rob Fender (Southampton

arxiv:1003.5516 v1 · 2010-03-29 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RIAAJHLWL3VEFK6F2LYBULDFKY}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T02:08:16.240352Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a00049d765eea42abc5d2f01a2c6556019990738f8ed407cf4cf7b83b39e0fb

Aliases

arxiv: 1003.5516 · arxiv_version: 1003.5516v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1003.5516 · pith_short_12: RIAAJHLWL3VE · pith_short_16: RIAAJHLWL3VEFK6F · pith_short_8: RIAAJHLW

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/RIAAJHLWL3VEFK6F2LYBULDFKY \
  | 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: 8a00049d765eea42abc5d2f01a2c6556019990738f8ed407cf4cf7b83b39e0fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f869f6d06ece499db4fdc0a92ffea12656949226b9aff8032bf80c3917af7427",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2010-03-29T12:03:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4f5b9d38d28532bce3a5d699f0976b2119a5fa052ee79586a842f1df47735b8d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1003.5516",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}