Pith Number

pith:XX7M2JYB

pith:1997:XX7M2JYB374WMNBCOIOSRPBPKQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optical Appearance of the Debris of a Star Disrupted by a Massive Black Hole

Abraham Loeb (Harvard), Andrew Ulmer (Princeton)

arxiv:astro-ph/9703079 v1 · 1997-03-12 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XX7M2JYB374WMNBCOIOSRPBPKQ}

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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4 papers in Pith

Bolometric correction factor and radiative efficiency for the super-Eddington accretion flow in tidal disruption events

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Little Red Dots as Hidden Neutrino Sources

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:02:54.852189Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bdfecd2701dff9663422721d28bc2f543da0fb67f6e65226d44d5d98519ff8be

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9703079 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9703079v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9703079 · pith_short_12: XX7M2JYB374W · pith_short_16: XX7M2JYB374WMNBC · pith_short_8: XX7M2JYB

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/XX7M2JYB374WMNBCOIOSRPBPKQ \
  | 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: bdfecd2701dff9663422721d28bc2f543da0fb67f6e65226d44d5d98519ff8be

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "00b9a119d0a3c80fb556f6a889f3a41b9899f78262083a9a95f58df259be9d94",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-03-12T01:38:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7399ffc61253ad8998633464cad8688eaab891ab92bf3f9ede3f0a858fdc75ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9703079",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}