Pith Number

pith:V6LXLFTR

pith:2019:V6LXLFTRW5OUOLXK2UJMYMH64B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Potential Kick Velocity distribution of black hole X-ray binaries and implications for natal kicks

A. Bahramian, A. T. Deller, C. J. Phillips, G. Nelemans, G. R. Sivakoff, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, J. McCallum, J. Stevens, M. A. P. Torres, P. Atri, P. G. Jonker, R. M. Plotkin, S. Chaty, S. Horiuchi, S. Weston, T. J. Maccarone, T. Natusch

arxiv:1908.07199 v2 · 2019-08-20 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V6LXLFTRW5OUOLXK2UJMYMH64B}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T00:06:53.987443Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af97759671b75d472eead512cc30fee0549553e685c405f961980e061c5b9ab3

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.07199 · arxiv_version: 1908.07199v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.07199 · pith_short_12: V6LXLFTRW5OU · pith_short_16: V6LXLFTRW5OUOLXK · pith_short_8: V6LXLFTR

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/V6LXLFTRW5OUOLXK2UJMYMH64B \
  | 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: af97759671b75d472eead512cc30fee0549553e685c405f961980e061c5b9ab3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c75c419f9009c349c96806b2ce3f53435874b958608c428be8d35509c5aba9ed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-20T07:40:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b554846132c30569e5bcc222643e078a13c795aeb4a5b7767c3c4dfd2bde75ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.07199",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}