Pith Number

pith:VB3RNSCF

pith:2026:VB3RNSCFFWOB2VV6UT3KLTZBOW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Real-time observations of the transition to the quiescent state in an accreting magnetised neutron star: No propeller required?

Aleksei V. Kuzin, Alexander A. Mushtukov, Alexander Salganik, Andrey S. Tavleev, Galina Lipunova, Juri Poutanen, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Sofia V. Forsblom, Valery F. Suleimanov

arxiv:2608.10733 v1 · 2026-08-11 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VB3RNSCFFWOB2VV6UT3KLTZBOW}

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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	2026-08-12T01:23:09.394518Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a87716c8452d9c1d56bea4f6a5cf217598eba54b946ddec6ee87644a8fa99545

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10733 · arxiv_version: 2608.10733v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10733 · pith_short_12: VB3RNSCFFWOB · pith_short_16: VB3RNSCFFWOB2VV6 · pith_short_8: VB3RNSCF

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/VB3RNSCFFWOB2VV6UT3KLTZBOW \
  | 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: a87716c8452d9c1d56bea4f6a5cf217598eba54b946ddec6ee87644a8fa99545

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96393b6d235f7953622af70ebebf85c82420fea54018b1a0e71ab6667c6e8035",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-11T09:53:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b95661cff0c28e29d06ffae9b3f7171155b5bc19a421e80867067a96463a072"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10733",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}