Pith Number

pith:XFXQGXHQ

pith:2012:XFXQGXHQJ362VZCTPDG3P4QNZV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Black Hole Evolution and Space Time (BEST) Observatory

Ezequiel Treister (Univ. of Hawaii), Henric Krawczynski (Washington Univ. in St. Louis), Jack Tueller (GSFC), James Buckley (Washington Univ. in St. Louis), Jeremy Schnittman (GSFC), Julian Krolik (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Martin Israel (Washington Univ. in St. Louis), Matthew G. Baring (Rice Univ.), Matthias Beilicke (Washington Univ. in St. Louis), Ram Cowsik (Washington Univ. in St. Louis), Richard Mushotzky (Univ. of Maryland), Scott Barthelmy (GSFC), William Zhang (GSFC)

arxiv:1205.3691 v1 · 2012-05-16 · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XFXQGXHQJ362VZCTPDG3P4QNZV}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T03:55:34.438577Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b96f035cf04efdaae45378cdb7f20dcd7d5f0f278ba5eedce7b358161b95d464

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.3691 · arxiv_version: 1205.3691v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.3691 · pith_short_12: XFXQGXHQJ362 · pith_short_16: XFXQGXHQJ362VZCT · pith_short_8: XFXQGXHQ

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/XFXQGXHQJ362VZCTPDG3P4QNZV \
  | 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: b96f035cf04efdaae45378cdb7f20dcd7d5f0f278ba5eedce7b358161b95d464

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "03e4d41503ea5b0b1630c78f0c3a9232c7b36a9aceac666a34dee60811950bd2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-16T14:44:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0611579889780530466e05af51c7bac0af74bcbb3b29740cfd0fa6dfd3947556"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.3691",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}