Pith Number

pith:YAYAAJPX

pith:2014:YAYAAJPXWJJDFSU2K6HUYR3OVC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Low-Spin Black Hole in LMC X-3

Charles D. Bailyn, James F. Steiner, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Jerome A. Orosz, Mari Kolehmainen, Odele Straub, Ronald A. Remillard

arxiv:1402.0148 v1 · 2014-02-02 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YAYAAJPXWJJDFSU2K6HUYR3OVC}

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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	2026-05-18T01:44:53.678478Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c0300025f7b25232ca9a578f4c476ea886a54959872da4d012df3f2de36f11fc

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.0148 · arxiv_version: 1402.0148v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.0148 · pith_short_12: YAYAAJPXWJJD · pith_short_16: YAYAAJPXWJJDFSU2 · pith_short_8: YAYAAJPX

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/YAYAAJPXWJJDFSU2K6HUYR3OVC \
  | 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: c0300025f7b25232ca9a578f4c476ea886a54959872da4d012df3f2de36f11fc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88e1283817ddc595c973d4b9f7777ced9c20fe65214df81f610e7d5f5806136e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-02T04:07:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46802bafee7d0dcdda02799b6e760d534ef62f2f0335d9c2b74f9b926be6c940"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.0148",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}