Pith Number

pith:YSPLUUBC

pith:1996:YSPLUUBC64EAGC7ATZVAPE7WUX

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The dynamical evolution of massive black hole binaries - I. Hardening in a fixed stellar background

Gerald D. Quinlan

arxiv:astro-ph/9601092 v1 · 1996-01-17 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{YSPLUUBC64EAGC7ATZVAPE7WUX}

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2 papers in Pith

Self-acceleration of Hardening Binaries

Probing Supermassive Black Hole Mergers with Pulsar Timing Arrays

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:15:59.866928Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c49eba5022f708030be09e6a0793f6a5e7d875b07b4abde7f6bcd4115c95ee78

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9601092 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9601092v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9601092 · pith_short_12: YSPLUUBC64EA · pith_short_16: YSPLUUBC64EAGC7A · pith_short_8: YSPLUUBC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YSPLUUBC64EAGC7ATZVAPE7WUX \
  | 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: c49eba5022f708030be09e6a0793f6a5e7d875b07b4abde7f6bcd4115c95ee78

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "916040c9cecb50b0028ab9d18dde22085d282bc423af002c7f7cc557f5ce3305",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-01-17T20:10:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "478660e46b53d18c808c4dbd39359db81245cf930ad82a5a5b256bf8bafed2f4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9601092",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}