Pith Number

pith:ZNUSTZCU

pith:1998:ZNUSTZCUADOFUDZANP3KHOMEXF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Contribution of High-Mass Black Holes to Mergers of Compact Binaries

G. E. Brown, Hans A. Bethe

arxiv:astro-ph/9805355 v2 · 1998-05-28 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZNUSTZCUADOFUDZANP3KHOMEXF}

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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	2026-07-04T16:06:42.948401Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb6929e45400dc5a0f206bf6a3b984b97f5882123962fc0e5507159a2e1b2477

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9805355 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9805355v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9805355 · pith_short_12: ZNUSTZCUADOF · pith_short_16: ZNUSTZCUADOFUDZA · pith_short_8: ZNUSTZCU

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/ZNUSTZCUADOFUDZANP3KHOMEXF \
  | 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: cb6929e45400dc5a0f206bf6a3b984b97f5882123962fc0e5507159a2e1b2477

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2040d2a2de155f45a39090f0cc2c06eb2ff48e22260248efd5fd9a43498d9c5d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-05-28T18:38:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec8d13e045140c2b03a19f41404b4240ed893c79758ce2fea4ab685fced038b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9805355",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}