Pith Number

pith:YYU3CVLZ

pith:1997:YYU3CVLZGJH3YVXFW57YV3C2YY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the outburst amplitude of the soft X-ray transients

E. Kuulkers (Oxford University), T. Shahbaz

arxiv:astro-ph/9710105 v1 · 1997-10-10 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YYU3CVLZGJH3YVXFW57YV3C2YY}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:16.647453Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c629b15579324fbc56e5b77f8aec5ac60b61d3227d4509d8469fc7517ac09bc6

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9710105 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9710105v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9710105 · pith_short_12: YYU3CVLZGJH3 · pith_short_16: YYU3CVLZGJH3YVXF · pith_short_8: YYU3CVLZ

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/YYU3CVLZGJH3YVXFW57YV3C2YY \
  | 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: c629b15579324fbc56e5b77f8aec5ac60b61d3227d4509d8469fc7517ac09bc6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "272bce5e57791627b27a7e5134e92ed5ee2cc0c1c3ae7a44a54d52ccc53f9f4e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-10-10T10:00:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a44e479f0cfa9db507045c220ed494aabb375e86cf10675b389d87ca87199c33"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9710105",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}