Pith Number

pith:VLP7Z2B6

pith:2019:VLP7Z2B6MH6RMK5C7YWF7ZC7LX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

NICER observes a secondary peak in the decay of a thermonuclear burst from 4U 1608-52

Christian Malacaria, Deepto Chakrabarty, Diego Altamirano, Duncan K. Galloway, Gaurava K. Jaisawal, J\'er\^ome Chenevez, J. J. M. in 't Zand, Jonathan Coopersmith, Keith C. Gendreau, Laurens Keek, Peter Bult, Phillip Adkins, Renee M. Ludlam, Sebastien Guillot, Tod E. Strohmayer, Tolga G\"uver, Zaven Arzoumanian

arxiv:1908.03373 v1 · 2019-08-09 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLP7Z2B6MH6RMK5C7YWF7ZC7LX}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T00:05:54.555205Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aadffce83e61fd162ba2fe2c5fe45f5dd11b32b57f03dabc8c670936b0c679d9

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.03373 · arxiv_version: 1908.03373v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.03373 · pith_short_12: VLP7Z2B6MH6R · pith_short_16: VLP7Z2B6MH6RMK5C · pith_short_8: VLP7Z2B6

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/VLP7Z2B6MH6RMK5C7YWF7ZC7LX \
  | 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: aadffce83e61fd162ba2fe2c5fe45f5dd11b32b57f03dabc8c670936b0c679d9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e6fb259cd9ffc3e02ecd7c3ae0fb906e45043d2889f72f6ea108d7d16b69d99e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-09T09:02:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58c22fe92e3d955fb0fadbb4da8dcb58df919b47fe6d98052dddca437fa57cd7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.03373",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}