Pith Number

pith:WVWBRJBO

pith:2026:WVWBRJBO5WZ6PEMJFC6ALK6MLF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Binary evolution at the extremes of mass-transfer efficiency: Contact, mergers, and population signatures

Fabian R. N. Schneider, Jan Henneco, Utkarsh R. Basu

arxiv:2608.05001 v1 · 2026-08-05 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WVWBRJBO5WZ6PEMJFC6ALK6MLF}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-08-06T01:48:01.795866Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b56c18a42eedb3e7918928bc05abcc594f19519fdae222770263b60863444a8c

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05001 · arxiv_version: 2608.05001v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05001 · pith_short_12: WVWBRJBO5WZ6 · pith_short_16: WVWBRJBO5WZ6PEMJ · pith_short_8: WVWBRJBO

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/WVWBRJBO5WZ6PEMJFC6ALK6MLF \
  | 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: b56c18a42eedb3e7918928bc05abcc594f19519fdae222770263b60863444a8c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ddc2969e4ecd377b3bf05dfb9897a4e47af6a10fe3921735033f4439e044d0a0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T16:09:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1c7206e22365133b8cd81bc65c174ff25dd82c81f4ecb1b632dfc1eb3517d49a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05001",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}