Pith Number

pith:STJIOCLH

pith:2006:STJIOCLHFLKDC6A2TRPFSUWBW6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ultra-luminous X-ray sources: X-ray binaries in a high/hard state?

C. K. Hung, G. V. Bicknell, M. C. Freeland, R. Soria, Z. Kuncic

arxiv:astro-ph/0611040 v1 · 2006-11-02 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{STJIOCLHFLKDC6A2TRPFSUWBW6}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:29.054225Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94d28709672ad431781a9c5e5952c1b798f99a61a07523e2c24f342a1911ab08

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0611040 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0611040v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0611040 · pith_short_12: STJIOCLHFLKD · pith_short_16: STJIOCLHFLKDC6A2 · pith_short_8: STJIOCLH

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/STJIOCLHFLKDC6A2TRPFSUWBW6 \
  | 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: 94d28709672ad431781a9c5e5952c1b798f99a61a07523e2c24f342a1911ab08

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6baee6878eaf09df779eb805853daf3e3265cdfcea908d511a55266fa0bfd1c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-11-02T04:54:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6b8613381fa255c6f1180aeaeedc5dfee971106241e747235bab9f7b15c13b2e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0611040",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}