Pith Number

pith:U4LHXLCD

pith:2016:U4LHXLCDYAKJR3NCYPLQB4G3ZJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Effect of Variability on X-Ray Binary Luminosity Functions: Multiple Epoch Observations of NGC 300 with Chandra

Benjamin F. Williams, Breanna Binder, Evan D. Skillman, Jacob Gross, Michael Eracleous, Paul P. Plucinsky, Terrance J. Gaetz

arxiv:1611.04511 v1 · 2016-11-14 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U4LHXLCDYAKJR3NCYPLQB4G3ZJ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:37.912514Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a7167bac43c01498eda2c3d700f0dbca56853db4b6e93ec0fb0713ba021a8519

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.04511 · arxiv_version: 1611.04511v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.04511 · pith_short_12: U4LHXLCDYAKJ · pith_short_16: U4LHXLCDYAKJR3NC · pith_short_8: U4LHXLCD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U4LHXLCDYAKJR3NCYPLQB4G3ZJ \
  | 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: a7167bac43c01498eda2c3d700f0dbca56853db4b6e93ec0fb0713ba021a8519

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d1da07905120dae4f6b9dc8dd1cc674519d2a023456fc44a8b93894beb55ae6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-14T18:35:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3f2d2b326f1dcddbada1c451b238493543355da7684e03a4fe79ae8f6bf01574"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.04511",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}