Pith Number

pith:V23ORYC7

pith:2001:V23ORYC76XSEM3G6P7VA5Z4JED

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Halo Black-Hole X-ray Transient XTE J1118+480

C. B. Foltz, J. Casares, P. A. Charles, P. Hewett, R. M. Wagner, S. G. Starrfield, T. Shahbaz

arxiv:astro-ph/0104032 v1 · 2001-04-02 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V23ORYC76XSEM3G6P7VA5Z4JED}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T02:40:36.475906Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aeb6e8e05ff5e4466cde7fea0ee78920e4003b9c11d32cbd1d52151c0d0e6dd7

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0104032 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0104032v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0104032 · pith_short_12: V23ORYC76XSE · pith_short_16: V23ORYC76XSEM3G6 · pith_short_8: V23ORYC7

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/V23ORYC76XSEM3G6P7VA5Z4JED \
  | 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: aeb6e8e05ff5e4466cde7fea0ee78920e4003b9c11d32cbd1d52151c0d0e6dd7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1cb3cea6157985f79d853223bddba009eb108adcbcb275ca473861062b178b06",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-04-02T22:56:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b1aea9d1f8262adca41c53af59184e37b699dc78c0393d4d4b1700b5f2e75c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0104032",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}