Pith Number

pith:S6FQNBWD

pith:2012:S6FQNBWDT5YRJBSXFLDE5JTMDB

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Cyg X-3: a low-mass black hole or a neutron star

Andrzej A. Zdziarski, Joanna Mikolajewska, Krzysztof Belczynski

arxiv:1208.5455 v2 · 2012-08-27 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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\pithnumber{S6FQNBWDT5YRJBSXFLDE5JTMDB}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:54:57.697254Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

978b0686c39f711486572ac64ea66c1846e1f5a514b7f0c5c2e32632210b1833

Aliases

arxiv: 1208.5455 · arxiv_version: 1208.5455v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1208.5455 · pith_short_12: S6FQNBWDT5YR · pith_short_16: S6FQNBWDT5YRJBSX · pith_short_8: S6FQNBWD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S6FQNBWDT5YRJBSXFLDE5JTMDB \
  | 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: 978b0686c39f711486572ac64ea66c1846e1f5a514b7f0c5c2e32632210b1833

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6a55913c2846254b11b625b41b6501fcb1fcfd7723ed69e1e3d5a09e6486143",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-08-27T17:46:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7f95f0f64cc586640eb24517d6651c9071aa8d4baf51a097e55a89cae4f95dce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1208.5455",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}