Pith Number

pith:2TMKPWTR

pith:2012:2TMKPWTRPOWP4TYGQTSKP7Y3BN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Transient Sub-Eddington Black Hole X-ray Binary Candidate in the Dust Lanes of Centaurus A

Andres Jordan, Christine Jones, Craig L. Sarazin, Daniel A. Evans, Diana M. Worrall, Gregory R. Sivakoff, Joanna L. Goodger, Jouni Kainulainen, Judith H. Croston, Kristin A. Woodley, Marat Gilfanov, Mark Birkinshaw, Mark J. Burke, Martin J. Hardcastle, Nicola J. Brassington, Ralph P. Kraft, Rasmus Voss, Somak Raychaudhury, Stephen S. Murray, William R. Forman, Zhongli Zhang

arxiv:1202.3149 v1 · 2012-02-14 · astro-ph.HE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2TMKPWTRPOWP4TYGQTSKP7Y3BN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:58:28.421062Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d4d8a7da717bacfe4f0684e4a7ff1b0b6734af0f762c8527fb9f5b702d959ee6

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.3149 · arxiv_version: 1202.3149v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.3149 · pith_short_12: 2TMKPWTRPOWP · pith_short_16: 2TMKPWTRPOWP4TYG · pith_short_8: 2TMKPWTR

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/2TMKPWTRPOWP4TYGQTSKP7Y3BN \
  | 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: d4d8a7da717bacfe4f0684e4a7ff1b0b6734af0f762c8527fb9f5b702d959ee6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c417c340cfbb17bc94a66dd7f94aff79f6b3f08884b87894ee81daa7cf9adf40",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-14T21:09:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8def773f8d024c1f71eb04da165a86b4c4847dc433aea0e8aeba16e6c6521dec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.3149",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}