Pith Number

pith:WUJVCV4Z

pith:2016:WUJVCV4ZS7M3UGVRUMFWHPBSMK

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Dynamical formation signatures of black hole binaries in the first detected mergers by LIGO

Bence Kocsis, Ryan M. O'Leary, Yohai Meiron

arxiv:1602.02809 v2 · 2016-02-08 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.GA · gr-qc

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\pithnumber{WUJVCV4ZS7M3UGVRUMFWHPBSMK}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:11:43.652284Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b51351579997d9ba1ab1a30b63bc3262abace6affc31959e527bf6c0d57c6ff4

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.02809 · arxiv_version: 1602.02809v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.02809 · pith_short_12: WUJVCV4ZS7M3 · pith_short_16: WUJVCV4ZS7M3UGVR · pith_short_8: WUJVCV4Z

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WUJVCV4ZS7M3UGVRUMFWHPBSMK \
  | 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: b51351579997d9ba1ab1a30b63bc3262abace6affc31959e527bf6c0d57c6ff4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc0ca2deaae3d7fc4159921956f8359942fe9c6fe92f702a1f721ff0810cc8be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-08T22:36:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e7ca9f4c91f131916ec54b253e866f8ca311384b9085849404b776d085a48b39"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.02809",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}