Pith Number

pith:SHQTOE4Z

pith:2012:SHQTOE4ZDDF6LSDI7KI4YXWQ2F

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Fast X-ray transients in the Galactic bulge with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer

Craig B. Markwardt, David M. Smith, Ignacio Negueruela, Jean H. Swank

arxiv:1202.6434 v1 · 2012-02-29 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SHQTOE4ZDDF6LSDI7KI4YXWQ2F}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:18.438950Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

91e137139918cbe5c868fa91cc5ed0d16e3091b0ca2b94419dc0462ffbfd4876

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.6434 · arxiv_version: 1202.6434v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.6434 · pith_short_12: SHQTOE4ZDDF6 · pith_short_16: SHQTOE4ZDDF6LSDI · pith_short_8: SHQTOE4Z

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/SHQTOE4ZDDF6LSDI7KI4YXWQ2F \
  | 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: 91e137139918cbe5c868fa91cc5ed0d16e3091b0ca2b94419dc0462ffbfd4876

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dcc28861142905f8c11915c846842bbf0913b8a52dc9c6455f6cc497966e29cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-29T04:32:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "beb9344362aff5b2e22e53d96fd3ec70497d43a8794ee9010fc04ec377ebbe85"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.6434",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}