Pith Number

pith:T4K36M4T

pith:2018:T4K36M4T7RFVCPAJRERK5Q27PQ

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Reinterpreting Low Frequency LIGO/Virgo Events as Magnified Stellar-Mass Black Holes at Cosmological Distances

George Smoot III, Jose M. Diego, Tom Broadhurst

arxiv:1802.05273 v3 · 2018-02-14 · astro-ph.CO · gr-qc

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Retrieving the True Masses of Gravitational-wave Sources

GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:19:11.058007Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9f15bf3393fc4b513c098922aec35f7c21ed70f6fb1cbe5c0e0d6d3c4046cd27

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.05273 · arxiv_version: 1802.05273v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.05273 · pith_short_12: T4K36M4T7RFV · pith_short_16: T4K36M4T7RFVCPAJ · pith_short_8: T4K36M4T

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/T4K36M4T7RFVCPAJRERK5Q27PQ \
  | 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: 9f15bf3393fc4b513c098922aec35f7c21ed70f6fb1cbe5c0e0d6d3c4046cd27

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d7a3a53d55040c58db735ffda1e9ef6b5435d074bc1cc08fde7e73857108b1b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-14T19:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1b7576944261a5d70b898fddc2e0c21a6a5e86b933a1dfbfd9d41b169f5d2c3c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.05273",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}