Pith Number

pith:XIRB7BQX

pith:2017:XIRB7BQXKACLQQDR7MQREDFAOW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Binary Black Hole Mergers within the LIGO Horizon: Statistical Properties and prospects for detecting Electromagnetic Counterparts

Alessandra Corsi, Krzysztof Belczynski, Martyna Chruslinska, Rosalba Perna

arxiv:1708.09402 v2 · 2017-08-30 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XIRB7BQXKACLQQDR7MQREDFAOW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:09.507488Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba221f86175004b84071fb21120ca0759dc6e2c281bf34008b51ac03ca9f90f8

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.09402 · arxiv_version: 1708.09402v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.09402 · pith_short_12: XIRB7BQXKACL · pith_short_16: XIRB7BQXKACLQQDR · pith_short_8: XIRB7BQX

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/XIRB7BQXKACLQQDR7MQREDFAOW \
  | 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: ba221f86175004b84071fb21120ca0759dc6e2c281bf34008b51ac03ca9f90f8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fbb0c8ccfdca1459fa94c3931f1e1a3a7ef61a8a1eb93a897b4f06fb3de6b656",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-30T18:00:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be6b05b8eb794f250bf28e973eceaf7d915388a74b29c1e65c9d1469c01908b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.09402",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}