Pith Number

pith:TDPBZAQK

pith:2003:TDPBZAQKEYZLJZWYVOWWB53E6S

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A close look at the state transitions of Galactic black hole transients during outburst decay

E. Kalemci, J. A. Tomsick, K. Pottschmidt, P. Kaaret, R. E. Rothschild

arxiv:astro-ph/0309799 v1 · 2003-09-29 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{TDPBZAQKEYZLJZWYVOWWB53E6S}

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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	2026-07-04T16:51:46.757747Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

98de1c820a2632b4e6d8abad60f764f4b3bb70109ed8fc1ea27b2f229a37c606

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0309799 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0309799v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0309799 · pith_short_12: TDPBZAQKEYZL · pith_short_16: TDPBZAQKEYZLJZWY · pith_short_8: TDPBZAQK

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/TDPBZAQKEYZLJZWYVOWWB53E6S \
  | 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: 98de1c820a2632b4e6d8abad60f764f4b3bb70109ed8fc1ea27b2f229a37c606

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e719fa2618a3b5b7e19d2b26160eacb88a71e0e29aba6cef7efe8b473c6e2731",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-09-29T20:57:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4bce1a2cac5ec121562a9be733425e190638139e8aa7fb103461a356a40d050d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0309799",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}