Pith Number

pith:W7HRJNBB

pith:2014:W7HRJNBBLOMBOK5W4TWJEKFAI5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Empirical Method for Improving the Quality of RXTE PCA Spectra

James F. Steiner, Javier Garcia, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Ronald A. Remillard, Victoria Grinberg

arxiv:1408.3607 v1 · 2014-08-15 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W7HRJNBBLOMBOK5W4TWJEKFAI5}

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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	2026-05-18T01:42:18.541513Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b7cf14b4215b98172bb6e4ec9228a0475c352f943e2afe762e9538e101b72e1c

Aliases

arxiv: 1408.3607 · arxiv_version: 1408.3607v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1408.3607 · pith_short_12: W7HRJNBBLOMB · pith_short_16: W7HRJNBBLOMBOK5W · pith_short_8: W7HRJNBB

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/W7HRJNBBLOMBOK5W4TWJEKFAI5 \
  | 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: b7cf14b4215b98172bb6e4ec9228a0475c352f943e2afe762e9538e101b72e1c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b689f12f8a52ce28ac8327ee97b0f729061fa278cddacd988d73e2acf42d501b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-08-15T18:34:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "065293c0dd8847849266bc33ed5cab71076d0cb64f5a115d256de7818a111036"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1408.3607",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}