Pith Number

pith:X3Y7DIUX

pith:2015:X3Y7DIUXHTIIAH4O6C3M4HFZAZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Flows of X-ray gas reveal the disruption of a star by a massive black hole

(10) Harvard University, (11) University of Alabama, (12) Wheaton College, (13) University of Leicester, (14) Columbia University, (15) University of California, (2) SRON, 3, (3) Universiteit Utrecht, 4), (4) Leiden University, (5) University of Maryland, (6) University of Warwick, (7) Joint Space-Science Institute, 8), (8) NASA GSFC, (9) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Andrew Levan (6), College Park, Dipankar Maitra (12), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (15), Frits Paerels (14), Gregory Brown (6), James Guillochon (10), Jelle de Plaa (2), Jelle S. Kaastra (2, Jeremy J. Drake (9), Jimmy Irwin (11), Jon M. Miller (1), Kayhan Gultekin (1), Mark T. Reynolds (1), M. Coleman Miller (5), Nial Tanvir (13) ((1) University of Michigan, Paul O'Brien (13), Richard Mushotzky (5), Santa Cruz), S. Bradley Cenko (7, Suvi Gezari (5), Tod Strohmayer (7), University of Maryland, W. Peter Maksym (11)

arxiv:1510.06348 v1 · 2015-10-21 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X3Y7DIUXHTIIAH4O6C3M4HFZAZ}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:27:56.506389Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bef1f1a2973cd0801f8ef0b6ce1cb90648437c0ce60da5560a1ef2ae5c645ded

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.06348 · arxiv_version: 1510.06348v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.06348 · pith_short_12: X3Y7DIUXHTII · pith_short_16: X3Y7DIUXHTIIAH4O · pith_short_8: X3Y7DIUX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X3Y7DIUXHTIIAH4O6C3M4HFZAZ \
  | 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: bef1f1a2973cd0801f8ef0b6ce1cb90648437c0ce60da5560a1ef2ae5c645ded

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e80e479cdc915ad03398e1819c0e8eed895ba6afaefa2c651e5c8f3a07b0455d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-21T17:44:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e67dcd899c8433ec053609efe625360134bafd15e9e22f70c2fa64fd4a6f063"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.06348",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}