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pith:USEN76ES

pith:2004:USEN76ESQFLI2KL6THGSJKVTIJ

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How black holes get their kicks: Radiation recoil in binary black hole mergers

Daniel E. Holz (Chicago), Marc Favata (Cornell), Scott A. Hughes (MIT)

arxiv:astro-ph/0408492 v1 · 2004-08-25 · astro-ph · gr-qc

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Recoil kicks from binary black hole mergers in GWTC catalogs: implications for retention and hierarchical mergers

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:44:33.919166Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a488dff89281568d297e99cd24aab3424066363ec1dae42ac6e9bcdbed2c4ed4

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0408492 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0408492v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0408492 · pith_short_12: USEN76ESQFLI · pith_short_16: USEN76ESQFLI2KL6 · pith_short_8: USEN76ES

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/USEN76ESQFLI2KL6THGSJKVTIJ \
  | 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: a488dff89281568d297e99cd24aab3424066363ec1dae42ac6e9bcdbed2c4ed4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a72cbfdf901eb0871b359781ed6bc399fdc3fa9af3f3191130d9844c1216f482",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-08-25T23:06:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c192d9e5d7de3e46c1f46d183648764b6d291a92f000bd1a4a82caba6508a65"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0408492",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}