Pith Number

pith:ZVAH2YI5

pith:2002:ZVAH2YI5Q7NE2EAAC5PVOOLRJR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Kerr black holes and time profiles of gamma-ray bursts

B. McBreen, F. Quilligan, L. Hanlon, S. McBreen

arxiv:astro-ph/0208349 v1 · 2002-08-19 · astro-ph · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZVAH2YI5Q7NE2EAAC5PVOOLRJR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:35:35.899390Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cd407d611d87da4d1000175f5739714c66fde6c632a2ccf2b83b34fe2851aa52

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0208349 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0208349v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0208349 · pith_short_12: ZVAH2YI5Q7NE · pith_short_16: ZVAH2YI5Q7NE2EAA · pith_short_8: ZVAH2YI5

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/ZVAH2YI5Q7NE2EAAC5PVOOLRJR \
  | 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: cd407d611d87da4d1000175f5739714c66fde6c632a2ccf2b83b34fe2851aa52

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c32fb4968275bf473cb5d75f5938753331b5072749efcf8f32490cf761100922",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-19T15:37:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12aa29332a20d092ebbca68eca3f4f0693aec1d31a0ebf9ba12567bc14875815"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0208349",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}