Pith Number

pith:RQ4LC5OG

pith:2017:RQ4LC5OGYMUQY36UVPFXJUS2OK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evidence for precession due to supercritical accretion in ultraluminous X-ray sources

Hua Feng, Shan-Shan Weng

arxiv:1712.09536 v2 · 2017-12-27 · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RQ4LC5OGYMUQY36UVPFXJUS2OK}

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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	2026-05-18T00:23:28.162502Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c38b175c6c3290c6fd4abcb74d25a72955702a6173b4a8eb29bd241fe481c92

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.09536 · arxiv_version: 1712.09536v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.09536 · pith_short_12: RQ4LC5OGYMUQ · pith_short_16: RQ4LC5OGYMUQY36U · pith_short_8: RQ4LC5OG

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/RQ4LC5OGYMUQY36UVPFXJUS2OK \
  | 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: 8c38b175c6c3290c6fd4abcb74d25a72955702a6173b4a8eb29bd241fe481c92

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52c1a525f1c5c75e3133ecfa6ad3842caa6fdb9a39afce51e6fe73e7ec1199f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-27T10:02:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50e543e9b2646d8aa7b6880ffa4f603d5eb3d28a0f7beef423f54dfb6259291a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.09536",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}