Pith Number

pith:VAVIJLA5

pith:1999:VAVIJLA56NQKU3ORCSXUBIKQZD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Brightness from the Blackest Night: Bursts of Gamma Rays and Gravity Waves from Black Hole Binaries

C.-H. Lee (SUNY Stony Brook), G. E. Brown, H. A. Bethe (Cornell), H.-K. Lee (Hanyang University), R. A. M. J. Wijers

arxiv:astro-ph/9905337 v1 · 1999-05-26 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VAVIJLA56NQKU3ORCSXUBIKQZD}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-04T14:16:43.920902Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a82a84ac1df360aa6dd114af40a150c8fb571e9924abbf2b4f7e8edc9af3ecf8

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9905337 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9905337v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9905337 · pith_short_12: VAVIJLA56NQK · pith_short_16: VAVIJLA56NQKU3OR · pith_short_8: VAVIJLA5

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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/VAVIJLA56NQKU3ORCSXUBIKQZD \
  | 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: a82a84ac1df360aa6dd114af40a150c8fb571e9924abbf2b4f7e8edc9af3ecf8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "748eae233d775dc84071a766994a3c68773b6b89f0d2bf67a41ad0ecd920e50e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-05-26T14:08:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3b1d641041317667295608f982163b8deb8d5152d7b2b9a7eab6e76383a31996"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9905337",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}