Pith Number

pith:TPNSTJAW

pith:2008:TPNSTJAWYFWGZY5QGMBYSZABAK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The 2007 outburst of the X-ray binary XTE J1856+053

G. Sala, J. Greiner, M. Ajello, N. Primak

arxiv:0810.1523 v1 · 2008-10-08 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TPNSTJAWYFWGZY5QGMBYSZABAK}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:14:36.321083Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9bdb29a416c16c6ce3b033038964010280e9fba0be9f493919014c1bb044476d

Aliases

arxiv: 0810.1523 · arxiv_version: 0810.1523v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0810.1523 · pith_short_12: TPNSTJAWYFWG · pith_short_16: TPNSTJAWYFWGZY5Q · pith_short_8: TPNSTJAW

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/TPNSTJAWYFWGZY5QGMBYSZABAK \
  | 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: 9bdb29a416c16c6ce3b033038964010280e9fba0be9f493919014c1bb044476d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cd20071db96a038aae803a1c3cd08c118f47365936f98955415cb6f89723ed27",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-10-08T20:07:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "197af509a2ec463ef241817b601f8c498d6bc8d045048648d744d94c7c207781"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0810.1523",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}