Pith Number

pith:YNOQL7YZ

pith:2018:YNOQL7YZ4Q6MBFAIFRTT2FTZYH

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The Next-Generation Very Large Array: Supermassive Black Hole Pairs and Binaries

Dominic Pesce, Greg Taylor, Julia M. Comerford, Laura Blecha, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Tamara Bogdanovic, Thomas J. Maccarone, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Xin Liu, Yue Shen

arxiv:1808.04368 v1 · 2018-08-13 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YNOQL7YZ4Q6MBFAIFRTT2FTZYH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:12.526103Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c35d05ff19e43cc094082c673d1679c1ce0755b7ac9bbeabe09aaf351c7c1298

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.04368 · arxiv_version: 1808.04368v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.04368 · pith_short_12: YNOQL7YZ4Q6M · pith_short_16: YNOQL7YZ4Q6MBFAI · pith_short_8: YNOQL7YZ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YNOQL7YZ4Q6MBFAIFRTT2FTZYH \
  | 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: c35d05ff19e43cc094082c673d1679c1ce0755b7ac9bbeabe09aaf351c7c1298

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ff48371711d144851c15631628f19cf78a2a24cfb9182dd0687e275c9ffb992c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-13T18:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "869a942fc61904f4706a8f8990a84c235414455e9ab26b4598f213fcba0ac874"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.04368",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}