Pith Number

pith:WX6I4VDD

pith:2010:WX6I4VDDEMVYKTY22XE4ZJDUOS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

X-ray flares from propagation instabilities in long Gamma-Ray Burst jets

Bran J. Morsony (UW Madison), Chris H. Blackwell (NCSU), Davide Lazzati (NCSU), Mitch C. Begelman (UC Boulder)

arxiv:1008.4364 v2 · 2010-08-25 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WX6I4VDDEMVYKTY22XE4ZJDUOS}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T02:05:42.712204Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5fc8e5463232b854f1ad5c9cca47474abe887d381c8f2a0983660cecc9cebc6

Aliases

arxiv: 1008.4364 · arxiv_version: 1008.4364v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1008.4364 · pith_short_12: WX6I4VDDEMVY · pith_short_16: WX6I4VDDEMVYKTY2 · pith_short_8: WX6I4VDD

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/WX6I4VDDEMVYKTY22XE4ZJDUOS \
  | 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: b5fc8e5463232b854f1ad5c9cca47474abe887d381c8f2a0983660cecc9cebc6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ef1725671e3e9469ba58d0c30b08edf4575daedb34f3601e4198140670bfae3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2010-08-25T20:04:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8173f74f5f56221a485ab1e47966b7c152d56d921badb8b172ff26697db63fa3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1008.4364",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}