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pith:VD5FKPVW

pith:2013:VD5FKPVWFDJHRYWQOKA25OOFFW
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Chandra identification of 26 new black hole candidates in the central region of M31

M. R. Garcia, R. Barnard, S. S. Murray

arxiv:1304.7780 v1 · 2013-04-29 · astro-ph.HE

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\pithnumber{VD5FKPVWFDJHRYWQOKA25OOFFW}

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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 2026-05-18T01:50:14.436790Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8fa553eb628d278e2d07281aeb9c52d9255bfd0fe09ff91e4783a66a8c7d898

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.7780 · arxiv_version: 1304.7780v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.7780 · pith_short_12: VD5FKPVWFDJH · pith_short_16: VD5FKPVWFDJHRYWQ · pith_short_8: VD5FKPVW
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VD5FKPVWFDJHRYWQOKA25OOFFW \
  | 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: a8fa553eb628d278e2d07281aeb9c52d9255bfd0fe09ff91e4783a66a8c7d898
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b7d9fb9542d37ad8fb89d2ebc14d85a00d94eabb771868310fa3b4bcfde2f69",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-29T20:01:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "62ddd8d6eafad7ded8897a0d33b7d5573cdcd9471fdf38328e447345bbffd7f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.7780",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}