Pith Number

pith:VUGPUPHX

pith:2006:VUGPUPHXJQJFE3EFWMLRTGZGGD

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Efficient Merger of Binary Supermassive Black Holes in Non-Axisymmetric Galaxies

David Merritt, Hans-Peter Bischof, Peter Berczik, Rainer Spurzem

arxiv:astro-ph/0601698 v1 · 2006-01-30 · astro-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VUGPUPHXJQJFE3EFWMLRTGZGGD}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T04:36:29.418666Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad0cfa3cf74c12526c85b317199b2630f7a83ba063f8d1007e835ae7c757ea45

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0601698 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0601698v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0601698 · pith_short_12: VUGPUPHXJQJF · pith_short_16: VUGPUPHXJQJFE3EF · pith_short_8: VUGPUPHX

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/VUGPUPHXJQJFE3EFWMLRTGZGGD \
  | 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: ad0cfa3cf74c12526c85b317199b2630f7a83ba063f8d1007e835ae7c757ea45

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9c8e7495bd2b8b90716b7627519fc284337fb9a6a147d96dbcc23f2e609d8aaa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-01-30T21:49:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "34bbe18773183e94ae6aa60708b45eef60bdb8893d25c137273530c5f7addcd1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0601698",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}