Pith Number

pith:XMZQU2CX

pith:2014:XMZQU2CX724BVNB4MBKS7YYUKX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The slim-disk state of the ultraluminous X-ray source in M83

K. D. Kuntz (JHU), Knox S. Long (STScI), Paul P. Plucinsky (CfA), P. Frank Winkler (Middlebury), Roberto Soria (ICRAR-Curtin), William P. Blair (JHU)

arxiv:1411.7212 v1 · 2014-11-26 · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XMZQU2CX724BVNB4MBKS7YYUKX}

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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

✓ 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	2026-05-18T01:41:25.662753Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb330a6857feb81ab43c60552fe31455f4ab49a51dbf65cc7911c071b218ad97

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.7212 · arxiv_version: 1411.7212v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.7212 · pith_short_12: XMZQU2CX724B · pith_short_16: XMZQU2CX724BVNB4 · pith_short_8: XMZQU2CX

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/XMZQU2CX724BVNB4MBKS7YYUKX \
  | 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: bb330a6857feb81ab43c60552fe31455f4ab49a51dbf65cc7911c071b218ad97

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b7036903d686abc7d63d9ac4ab1e311abacb8a270cd9df006269ddd4b324a679",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-26T12:58:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "64270b7c05578b7360883c121ad3dcaf178e85aa013038a630b2560ff250ad00"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.7212",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}