{"record_type":"pith_number_record","schema_url":"https://pith.science/schemas/pith-number/v1.json","pith_number":"pith:2018:ZGKN63PWLSMG7NBMLS4GSGVVWU","short_pith_number":"pith:ZGKN63PW","schema_version":"1.0","canonical_sha256":"c994df6df65c986fb42c5cb8691ab5b5169a1ed8a886d53fdbb336686d6247f4","source":{"kind":"arxiv","id":"1806.05820","version":3},"attestation_state":"computed","paper":{"title":"Merging stellar-mass binary black holes","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.SR","gr-qc"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"Alison Farmer, Ilya Mandel","submitted_at":"2018-06-15T06:20:50Z","abstract_excerpt":"The LIGO and Virgo detectors have directly observed gravitational waves from mergers of pairs of stellar-mass black holes, along with a smaller number of mergers involving neutron stars. These observations raise the hope that compact object mergers could be used as a probe of stellar and binary evolution, and perhaps of stellar dynamics. This colloquium-style article summarises the existing observations, describes theoretical predictions for formation channels of merging stellar-mass black-hole binaries along with their rates and observable properties, and presents some prospects for gravitati"},"verification_status":{"content_addressed":true,"pith_receipt":true,"author_attested":false,"weak_author_claims":0,"strong_author_claims":0,"externally_anchored":false,"storage_verified":false,"citation_signatures":0,"replication_records":0,"graph_snapshot":true,"references_resolved":false,"formal_links_present":false},"canonical_record":{"source":{"id":"1806.05820","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"metadata":{"license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","submitted_at":"2018-06-15T06:20:50Z","cross_cats_sorted":["astro-ph.SR","gr-qc"],"title_canon_sha256":"15d776cbb6b733c3aaa7ef27a3cf293e1c33eead4c91704b18f14df82566cf8b","abstract_canon_sha256":"5f588700a3dfdade4c66a65702aac7baf8a293d9b5239ab7fad165d4a96d5d26"},"schema_version":"1.0"},"receipt":{"kind":"pith_receipt","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","algorithm":"ed25519","signed_at":"2026-07-05T04:21:42.924504Z","signature_b64":"Jmt1q0G3HDsNiBajV8QBQ/Ebel710XLM8PYD6z3yvP4eZyaIEs3V54+4517EugvczuQKOE03aEr0PydXzNLnCQ==","signed_message":"canonical_sha256_bytes","builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","receipt_version":"0.3","canonical_sha256":"c994df6df65c986fb42c5cb8691ab5b5169a1ed8a886d53fdbb336686d6247f4","last_reissued_at":"2026-07-05T04:21:42.923994Z","signature_status":"signed_v1","first_computed_at":"2026-07-05T04:21:42.923994Z","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54"},"graph_snapshot":{"paper":{"title":"Merging stellar-mass binary black holes","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.SR","gr-qc"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"Alison Farmer, Ilya Mandel","submitted_at":"2018-06-15T06:20:50Z","abstract_excerpt":"The LIGO and Virgo detectors have directly observed gravitational waves from mergers of pairs of stellar-mass black holes, along with a smaller number of mergers involving neutron stars. These observations raise the hope that compact object mergers could be used as a probe of stellar and binary evolution, and perhaps of stellar dynamics. This colloquium-style article summarises the existing observations, describes theoretical predictions for formation channels of merging stellar-mass black-hole binaries along with their rates and observable properties, and presents some prospects for gravitati"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1806.05820","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/1806.05820/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"},"aliases":[{"alias_kind":"arxiv","alias_value":"1806.05820","created_at":"2026-07-05T04:21:42.924060+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"arxiv_version","alias_value":"1806.05820v3","created_at":"2026-07-05T04:21:42.924060+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"doi","alias_value":"10.48550/arxiv.1806.05820","created_at":"2026-07-05T04:21:42.924060+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_12","alias_value":"ZGKN63PWLSMG","created_at":"2026-07-05T04:21:42.924060+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_16","alias_value":"ZGKN63PWLSMG7NBM","created_at":"2026-07-05T04:21:42.924060+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_8","alias_value":"ZGKN63PW","created_at":"2026-07-05T04:21:42.924060+00:00"}],"events":[],"event_summary":{},"paper_claims":[],"inbound_citations":{"count":19,"internal_anchor_count":0,"sample":[{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.21076","citing_title":"Population-level correlations in Bayesian statistics: an illustrative model for gravitational-wave astronomy","ref_index":20,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.12205","citing_title":"Evidence for additional structure in the effective spin distribution hints at multiple formation pathways in GWTC-5.0","ref_index":16,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2606.03776","citing_title":"Targeting black holes from metal-poor progenitors with next-generation gravitational-wave detectors","ref_index":61,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.28715","citing_title":"Accurate waveforms for generic planar-orbit binary black holes: The multipolar effective-one-body model SEOBNRv6EHM","ref_index":17,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"1907.05361","citing_title":"Gravitational Waves from Black Holes in Merging Ultra-Dwarf Galaxies","ref_index":30,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2311.01300","citing_title":"Waveform Modelling for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna","ref_index":213,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2404.14286","citing_title":"Evidence for eccentricity in the population of binary black holes observed by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA","ref_index":42,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2510.22698","citing_title":"A new group of low-spin $50-70M_\\odot$ Black Holes and the high pair-instability mass cutoff","ref_index":6,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.15749","citing_title":"Constraints on primordial black holes from the first part of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run","ref_index":8,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2507.13249","citing_title":"Comparing astrophysical models to gravitational-wave data in the observable space","ref_index":6,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2507.23663","citing_title":"Disentangling spinning and nonspinning binary black hole populations with spin sorting","ref_index":75,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2601.04276","citing_title":"Search for Precessing Binary Black Holes in Advanced LIGO's Third Observing Run using Harmonic Decomposition","ref_index":13,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2602.11030","citing_title":"Population Properties of Binary Black Holes with Eccentricity","ref_index":31,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2603.20031","citing_title":"Analytical Solution of Spinning, Eccentric Binary Black Hole Dynamics at the Second Post-Newtonian Order","ref_index":13,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.12818","citing_title":"Assessing the imprint of eccentricity in GW signatures using two independent waveform models","ref_index":37,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2605.05537","citing_title":"Implications of the LISA stochastic signal from eccentric stellar mass black hole binaries in vacuum","ref_index":16,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.06090","citing_title":"Posterior Predictive Checks for Gravitational-wave Populations: Limitations and Improvements","ref_index":51,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2604.15431","citing_title":"Highly eccentric non-spinning binary black hole mergers: quadrupolar post-merger waveforms","ref_index":41,"is_internal_anchor":false},{"citing_arxiv_id":"2601.07908","citing_title":"Signatures of a subpopulation of hierarchical mergers in the GWTC-4 gravitational-wave dataset","ref_index":1,"is_internal_anchor":false}]},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"sample":[],"anchors":[]},"links":{"html":"https://pith.science/pith/ZGKN63PWLSMG7NBMLS4GSGVVWU","json":"https://pith.science/pith/ZGKN63PWLSMG7NBMLS4GSGVVWU.json","graph_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/ZGKN63PWLSMG7NBMLS4GSGVVWU/graph.json","events_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/ZGKN63PWLSMG7NBMLS4GSGVVWU/events.json","paper":"https://pith.science/paper/ZGKN63PW"},"agent_actions":{"view_html":"https://pith.science/pith/ZGKN63PWLSMG7NBMLS4GSGVVWU","download_json":"https://pith.science/pith/ZGKN63PWLSMG7NBMLS4GSGVVWU.json","view_paper":"https://pith.science/paper/ZGKN63PW","resolve_alias":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/resolve?arxiv=1806.05820&json=true","fetch_graph":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/ZGKN63PWLSMG7NBMLS4GSGVVWU/graph.json","fetch_events":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/ZGKN63PWLSMG7NBMLS4GSGVVWU/events.json","actions":{"anchor_timestamp":"https://pith.science/pith/ZGKN63PWLSMG7NBMLS4GSGVVWU/action/timestamp_anchor","attest_storage":"https://pith.science/pith/ZGKN63PWLSMG7NBMLS4GSGVVWU/action/storage_attestation","attest_author":"https://pith.science/pith/ZGKN63PWLSMG7NBMLS4GSGVVWU/action/author_attestation","sign_citation":"https://pith.science/pith/ZGKN63PWLSMG7NBMLS4GSGVVWU/action/citation_signature","submit_replication":"https://pith.science/pith/ZGKN63PWLSMG7NBMLS4GSGVVWU/action/replication_record"}},"created_at":"2026-07-05T04:21:42.924060+00:00","updated_at":"2026-07-05T04:21:42.924060+00:00"}