Pith Number

pith:VSUCYXSY

pith:2012:VSUCYXSYDZO2XVEK3FMOSRRJSH

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The Orbital Period of Scorpius X-1

Christopher T. Britt (Louisiana State University), Robert I. Hynes

arxiv:1206.1455 v1 · 2012-06-07 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSUCYXSYDZO2XVEK3FMOSRRJSH}

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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	2026-05-18T03:41:29.197234Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aca82c5e581e5dabd48ad958e9462991ffaa8bdb27eef297a440147659438075

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.1455 · arxiv_version: 1206.1455v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.1455 · pith_short_12: VSUCYXSYDZO2 · pith_short_16: VSUCYXSYDZO2XVEK · pith_short_8: VSUCYXSY

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/VSUCYXSYDZO2XVEK3FMOSRRJSH \
  | 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: aca82c5e581e5dabd48ad958e9462991ffaa8bdb27eef297a440147659438075

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "02babfaf07a20cf0f18cb471ca16185f218b0a059954778c38639b1916e96234",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-07T11:25:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48fff06954669614d05a395e3721b392865deb90b7573a03a6605737892b7154"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.1455",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}