Pith Number

pith:TISTNTSB

pith:2015:TISTNTSBBWYWPUS5F6UY4KGZ7P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Chandra, XMM-Newton and HST observations of a transient in M31 with a possible asymmetric, precessing disk

M. R. Garcia, R. Barnard, S. S. Murray

arxiv:1503.03409 v1 · 2015-03-11 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TISTNTSBBWYWPUS5F6UY4KGZ7P}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:52.402886Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9a2536ce410db167d25d2fa98e28d9fbf0034f2b76b29566d0781effed11f3c7

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.03409 · arxiv_version: 1503.03409v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.03409 · pith_short_12: TISTNTSBBWYW · pith_short_16: TISTNTSBBWYWPUS5 · pith_short_8: TISTNTSB

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/TISTNTSBBWYWPUS5F6UY4KGZ7P \
  | 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: 9a2536ce410db167d25d2fa98e28d9fbf0034f2b76b29566d0781effed11f3c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9afafeef1957c1bdf992c6cdd31b22e2948ed3662ac6bec74186c508bbd50280",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-11T16:40:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc9c37c97b6c2094754a73c2cdf51675dc981541d328261b1f7f66b8e9fa4241"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.03409",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}