Pith Number

pith:ZTI6AYQF

pith:2005:ZTI6AYQFJLW3QBOXWEWIXFYDRP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Local Rate and the Progenitor Lifetimes of Short-Hard Gamma-Ray Bursts: Synthesis and Predictions for LIGO

Avishay Gal-Yam, Derek B. Fox, Ehud Nakar

arxiv:astro-ph/0511254 v2 · 2005-11-09 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{ZTI6AYQFJLW3QBOXWEWIXFYDRP}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T17:15:24.761890Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ccd1e062054aedb805d7b12c8b97038bee314951a8f1144fc4cf3cac3a1726d6

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0511254 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0511254v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0511254 · pith_short_12: ZTI6AYQFJLW3 · pith_short_16: ZTI6AYQFJLW3QBOX · pith_short_8: ZTI6AYQF

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/ZTI6AYQFJLW3QBOXWEWIXFYDRP \
  | 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: ccd1e062054aedb805d7b12c8b97038bee314951a8f1144fc4cf3cac3a1726d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ef8fcd868d7d27da248a42320da39ccefe8e49eeebbf106458f97ae845bb8b6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2005-11-09T20:53:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d25a73815defd8e84e9349fa117607cd28103e3c0ec78be89421bbd06872834"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0511254",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}