Pith Number

pith:U6KFQPF7

pith:2017:U6KFQPF73R5RGSEOF2WYKHVRXP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The long-term optical evolution of the black hole candidate MAXI J1659-152

Albert K. H. Kong, Daniel Mata S\'anchez, David M. Russell, Elizabeth S. Bartlett, Franz E. Bauer, Fraser Lewis, Jeroen Homan, Jesus M. Corral-Santana, Jorge Casares, Laurien Schreuder, Manuel A. P. Torres, Pablo Rodr\'iguez-Gil, Peter G. Jonker, Tariq Shahbaz, Teodoro Mu\~noz-Darias, Thomas Wevers

arxiv:1712.02349 v2 · 2017-12-06 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U6KFQPF73R5RGSEOF2WYKHVRXP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:14.240583Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a794583cbfdc7b13488e2ead851eb1bbdb51db720fd02c9d2d0be8411c2b57a6

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.02349 · arxiv_version: 1712.02349v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.02349 · pith_short_12: U6KFQPF73R5R · pith_short_16: U6KFQPF73R5RGSEO · pith_short_8: U6KFQPF7

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U6KFQPF73R5RGSEOF2WYKHVRXP \
  | 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: a794583cbfdc7b13488e2ead851eb1bbdb51db720fd02c9d2d0be8411c2b57a6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e067687ad73408728dcb3bd8f14b9b2314222b9f26e15d5d2ade467085a8bf69",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-06T19:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b9bd889ca94f969517cbcfee6782c1ff3a7a5be586fd226c4992527fb8c8c44"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.02349",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}