Pith Number

pith:ZWGY2FYS

pith:2018:ZWGY2FYSCMDUCK4VCL5NFLP4QT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Accretion of clumpy cold gas onto massive black hole binaries: a possible fast route to binary coalescence

Alberto Sesana, Cristian Maureira-Fredes, Felipe G. Goicovic, Jorge Cuadra, Pau Amaro-Seoane

arxiv:1801.04937 v3 · 2018-01-15 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZWGY2FYSCMDUCK4VCL5NFLP4QT}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:12:08.971489Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cd8d8d17121307412b9512fad2adfc84dd3086e47dfd7c4c3f42a2677483285d

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.04937 · arxiv_version: 1801.04937v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.04937 · pith_short_12: ZWGY2FYSCMDU · pith_short_16: ZWGY2FYSCMDUCK4V · pith_short_8: ZWGY2FYS

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZWGY2FYSCMDUCK4VCL5NFLP4QT \
  | 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: cd8d8d17121307412b9512fad2adfc84dd3086e47dfd7c4c3f42a2677483285d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "133b64045bcac4cd7c3335af542fe7da788e972badf3af35dc354ca6045b9d2c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-15T19:00:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba8a120092f5c7c2732e615f82fcabdab9cae5627d64c3585dfe3d199f07bb55"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.04937",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}