Pith Number

pith:VKFZ6XNX

pith:2014:VKFZ6XNXEWPUL4HMMB3EBFVGPY

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Red or blue? A potential kilonova imprint of the delay until black hole formation following a neutron star merger

Brian D. Metzger, Rodrigo Fern\'andez

arxiv:1402.4803 v2 · 2014-02-19 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR · gr-qc · nucl-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VKFZ6XNXEWPUL4HMMB3EBFVGPY}

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Subsolar-mass binary mergers of strange stars and neutron stars: gravitational waves and ejecta

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:44:36.169195Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa8b9f5db7259f45f0ec60764096a67e26fb080b597287019806d72cee6b0fe0

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.4803 · arxiv_version: 1402.4803v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.4803 · pith_short_12: VKFZ6XNXEWPU · pith_short_16: VKFZ6XNXEWPUL4HM · pith_short_8: VKFZ6XNX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VKFZ6XNXEWPUL4HMMB3EBFVGPY \
  | 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: aa8b9f5db7259f45f0ec60764096a67e26fb080b597287019806d72cee6b0fe0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "24bc029237bf515899c986b030984a885fd1b2317c20d357c8d66ae364a67274",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR",
      "gr-qc",
      "nucl-th"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-19T21:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39b7813dadcba86e6661f426227de056db1b9939b00dfc379855c682d9d22f4b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.4803",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}