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pith:RVLXEYAB

pith:2019:RVLXEYABUWM6NOQZ3CZYMKKSSF

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A Highly Spinning and Aligned Binary Black Hole Merger in the Advanced LIGO First Observing Run

Barak Zackay, Javier Roulet, Liang Dai, Matias Zaldarriaga, Tejaswi Venumadhav

arxiv:1902.10331 v2 · 2019-02-27 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.IM · gr-qc

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GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

GW190711_030756 and GW200114_020818: astrophysical interpretation of two asymmetric binary black hole mergers in the IAS catalog

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:39:45.167301Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d57726001a599e6ba19d8b3862952916f1a678dc253ab496de0df408cb337ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.10331 · arxiv_version: 1902.10331v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.10331 · pith_short_12: RVLXEYABUWM6 · pith_short_16: RVLXEYABUWM6NOQZ · pith_short_8: RVLXEYAB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RVLXEYABUWM6NOQZ3CZYMKKSSF \
  | 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: 8d57726001a599e6ba19d8b3862952916f1a678dc253ab496de0df408cb337ac

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-27T05:11:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a652577c3b6ad31019d6450c329cd79662c67d8ff70fe1acf4efa182f1aee0db"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}