Pith Number

pith:VDRB22H3

pith:2017:VDRB22H33SX2SXBMDIMHY4IJJJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An excess of low-mass X-ray binaries in the outer halo of NGC 4472

Arunav Kundu, David J. Sand, J. Christopher Mihos, Lennart M. van Haaften, Paul H. Sell, Stephen E. Zepf, Thomas J. Maccarone

arxiv:1711.05756 v1 · 2017-11-15 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDRB22H33SX2SXBMDIMHY4IJJJ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:25:23.327842Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8e21d68fbdcafa95c2c1a187c71094a5f23349928fc3599677b876b01568167

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.05756 · arxiv_version: 1711.05756v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.05756 · pith_short_12: VDRB22H33SX2 · pith_short_16: VDRB22H33SX2SXBM · pith_short_8: VDRB22H3

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/VDRB22H33SX2SXBMDIMHY4IJJJ \
  | 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: a8e21d68fbdcafa95c2c1a187c71094a5f23349928fc3599677b876b01568167

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "57ef3063f2166e71b8ed174efa824e6764c875d955f7c106c96fa928ab6000fe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-15T19:01:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d57e5ed275c84aa55e3fb8f2a935209512d424707f3af2701008517e7151105d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.05756",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}