Pith Number

pith:VYXSTKJB

pith:2004:VYXSTKJB74UREDEPNTDKHLBQ62

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

X-ray Observation of SS 433 with RXTE

A. Nandi, P. Goldoni, Sandip K.Chakrabarti, Tomaso Belloni

arxiv:astro-ph/0409662 v2 · 2004-09-28 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VYXSTKJB74UREDEPNTDKHLBQ62}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-04T16:44:46.315731Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae2f29a921ff29120c8f6cc6a3ac30f685acd088aebacd2c01e8331146b3e4f1

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0409662 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0409662v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0409662 · pith_short_12: VYXSTKJB74UR · pith_short_16: VYXSTKJB74UREDEP · pith_short_8: VYXSTKJB

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/VYXSTKJB74UREDEPNTDKHLBQ62 \
  | 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: ae2f29a921ff29120c8f6cc6a3ac30f685acd088aebacd2c01e8331146b3e4f1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ee08477606d2e6143def29623b12dcfe40bc88dab6d2aa5419cd572bee9635ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-09-28T05:00:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de5b5929a8679e423fa0d6c255554bb8f03e679286be03cf4e8062685631dbb4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0409662",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}