Pith Number

pith:TE4M5IU5

pith:1997:TE4M5IU552WFR2RCNARPQZCY3M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The viscous disk of GRS 1915+105

A.R. King, J. van Paradijs, M. Mendez, M. van der Klis, T. Belloni

arxiv:astro-ph/9712232 v1 · 1997-12-17 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TE4M5IU552WFR2RCNARPQZCY3M}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T01:40:14.690391Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9938cea29deeac58ea226822f86458db10b228b43b2d297a000fb074444869af

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9712232 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9712232v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9712232 · pith_short_12: TE4M5IU552WF · pith_short_16: TE4M5IU552WFR2RC · pith_short_8: TE4M5IU5

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/TE4M5IU552WFR2RCNARPQZCY3M \
  | 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: 9938cea29deeac58ea226822f86458db10b228b43b2d297a000fb074444869af

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "73f56c9c4abfd63c64643426d836ed56a67ef94e87dadedc81956fe499c50540",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-17T15:42:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b5b530f91eaf167e2f69d1a0ebabc318a7f11b90dd061626b567941605d5f818"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9712232",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}