Pith Number

pith:43K4UPED

pith:2021:43K4UPEDBJ5S4DIQQ2GMU3UGHP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Empirical Background Model for the NICER X-ray Timing Instrument

Abigail L. Stevens, Arkadip Basak, Beverly LaMarr, Craig Markwardt, Diego Altamirano, Douglas J. K. Buisson, Gregory Y. Prigozhin, James F. Steiner, Keith C. Gendreau, Michael Loewenstein, Paul S. Ray, Ronald A. Remillard, Teruaki Enoto, Zaven Arzoumanian

arxiv:2105.09901 v1 · 2021-05-20 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{43K4UPEDBJ5S4DIQQ2GMU3UGHP}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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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Long thermonuclear burst driven thermal-viscous instability of accretion disk: triggering an outburst-like X-ray flare

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T03:58:48.793361Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6d5ca3c830a7b2e0d10868cca6e863bdf75de8c6d9bd8bf5d8be8b3041b2a3a

Aliases

arxiv: 2105.09901 · arxiv_version: 2105.09901v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2105.09901 · pith_short_12: 43K4UPEDBJ5S · pith_short_16: 43K4UPEDBJ5S4DIQ · pith_short_8: 43K4UPED

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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/43K4UPEDBJ5S4DIQQ2GMU3UGHP \
  | 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: e6d5ca3c830a7b2e0d10868cca6e863bdf75de8c6d9bd8bf5d8be8b3041b2a3a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ddf16b0717a1908dfd7347d7b94b339ee79f02730c16000a72380592f00d5e58",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2021-05-20T17:06:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e0e0ed8878654fd5249658a7982200b25556b60b613dd1eb3aafb486af8d8af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2105.09901",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}