Pith Number

pith:SQC6MDFE

pith:2017:SQC6MDFEJSCJUTZYJKWPGD7ZPQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Formation of Rapidly Rotating Black Holes in High Mass X-ray Binaries

Aldo Batta, Chris Fryer, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

arxiv:1708.00570 v1 · 2017-08-02 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SQC6MDFEJSCJUTZYJKWPGD7ZPQ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:19.308965Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9405e60ca44c849a4f384aacf30ff97c3f9ab62deab03a9815f4695671e5c393

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.00570 · arxiv_version: 1708.00570v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.00570 · pith_short_12: SQC6MDFEJSCJ · pith_short_16: SQC6MDFEJSCJUTZY · pith_short_8: SQC6MDFE

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/SQC6MDFEJSCJUTZYJKWPGD7ZPQ \
  | 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: 9405e60ca44c849a4f384aacf30ff97c3f9ab62deab03a9815f4695671e5c393

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fce9fb5c4b603cffbf577046ac3506a31db50b91ebbee3c25caf32de5a8c9840",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-02T01:13:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aafaeed8744e8ac43555ec4732eed03a8ad3ffe48e0f8a3d1bb73f033af58356"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.00570",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}