Pith Number

pith:RSGT7QZB

pith:2022:RSGT7QZBULLXCJE5UJ5PEW2BXS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Rapidly Spinning Intermediate-Mass Black Hole 3XMM J150052.0+015452

A.I. Zabludoff, N.C. Stone, P.G. Jonker, S. Wen, Z. Cao

arxiv:2211.16936 v1 · 2022-11-30 · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RSGT7QZBULLXCJE5UJ5PEW2BXS}

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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	2026-07-05T05:30:19.338244Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c8d3fc321a2d771249da27af25b41bcabae507955d12b5fc6349b9ccb34518c

Aliases

arxiv: 2211.16936 · arxiv_version: 2211.16936v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2211.16936 · pith_short_12: RSGT7QZBULLX · pith_short_16: RSGT7QZBULLXCJE5 · pith_short_8: RSGT7QZB

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/RSGT7QZBULLXCJE5UJ5PEW2BXS \
  | 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: 8c8d3fc321a2d771249da27af25b41bcabae507955d12b5fc6349b9ccb34518c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "432e02b040d8012c8ee0d7dfc5f4d578971388c490069f86ccbf260f659f5053",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2022-11-30T12:17:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a6ce54ed271377707e197cd052cb8a557fc1c77ac26a534f7bcdad6eee256454"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2211.16936",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}