Pith Number

pith:U423QXNM

pith:2002:U423QXNM2NIMYULUQ6UT2NV6F6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

X-ray QPOs in Black-Hole Binary Systems

Jeffrey E. McClintock (CfA), Jerome A. Orosz (Utrecht U.), Michael P. Muno (MIT), Ronald A. Remillard

arxiv:astro-ph/0208402 v1 · 2002-08-21 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U423QXNM2NIMYULUQ6UT2NV6F6}

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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	2026-07-04T14:12:10.932783Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a735b85dacd350cc517487a93d36be2fb3d5eef0fc03737910411096a209391d

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0208402 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0208402v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0208402 · pith_short_12: U423QXNM2NIM · pith_short_16: U423QXNM2NIMYULU · pith_short_8: U423QXNM

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/U423QXNM2NIMYULUQ6UT2NV6F6 \
  | 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: a735b85dacd350cc517487a93d36be2fb3d5eef0fc03737910411096a209391d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "12876c7a130caa9bce59bf4fbbabdac970b9a3bb6662a720f1ab9acf83051ed8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-21T20:50:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53aa364f36dada221d51f28eaeb690ae11c3a8fad8c09274b2ec82eab8116fa2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0208402",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}