Pith Number

pith:XNOSKDVG

pith:2015:XNOSKDVGPLFJMBJKXUBH2S3NH3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Was the soft X-ray flare in NGC 3599 due to an AGN disc instability or a delayed tidal disruption event?

Andrew M. Read, Richard D. Saxton, Sara E. Motta, S. Komossa

arxiv:1509.05193 v2 · 2015-09-17 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XNOSKDVGPLFJMBJKXUBH2S3NH3}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:29:44.588896Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb5d250ea67aca96052abd027d4b6d3ee11161eb1429cda24d508763c695827d

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.05193 · arxiv_version: 1509.05193v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.05193 · pith_short_12: XNOSKDVGPLFJ · pith_short_16: XNOSKDVGPLFJMBJK · pith_short_8: XNOSKDVG

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/XNOSKDVGPLFJMBJKXUBH2S3NH3 \
  | 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: bb5d250ea67aca96052abd027d4b6d3ee11161eb1429cda24d508763c695827d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4a5026439170490f7639a4c31d25ca1d02c137358ec266a84c19b9b0be41596f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-17T10:14:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5cd590966db73d6e1ec74f406de3f2566a09c20cf99186e3f04a71121f0c6f86"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.05193",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}