Pith Number

pith:XBLIUZNP

pith:2026:XBLIUZNPJPYJIFHFGZIFDRZ6FL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A case for Case A: detailed look at binary black hole formation through stable mass transfer

Abhishek Chattaraj, Anarya Ray, Elizabeth Teng, Jeff J. Andrews, Max M. Briel, Michael Zevin, Monica Gallegos-Garcia, Philipp M. Srivastava, Seth Gossage, Tassos Fragos, Vicky Kalogera

arxiv:2602.03629 v3 · 2026-02-03 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XBLIUZNPJPYJIFHFGZIFDRZ6FL}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-20T00:00:33.341508Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b8568a65af4bf09414e5365051c73e2ad07527c0ad247135a632a6ab12f7dca3

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.03629 · arxiv_version: 2602.03629v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.03629 · pith_short_12: XBLIUZNPJPYJ · pith_short_16: XBLIUZNPJPYJIFHF · pith_short_8: XBLIUZNP

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/XBLIUZNPJPYJIFHFGZIFDRZ6FL \
  | 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: b8568a65af4bf09414e5365051c73e2ad07527c0ad247135a632a6ab12f7dca3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3e68d4d5e399580180fc42effff8c6671bde2e710a4abc050dbc8bee82844bb7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-03T15:17:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "09257896f6f5ba6ab0790e59e111df5fb2e92f7799826551a651fcbc0efc55d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.03629",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}