Pith Number

pith:5ZYBMSCN

pith:1999:5ZYBMSCNT7SYAH3H3NZFVEIYRO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Evolutionary Status of SS433

Andrew R. King, Mitchell C. Begelman, Ronald E. Taam

arxiv:astro-ph/9912396 v1 · 1999-12-18 · astro-ph

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:12:02.483071Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee7016484d9fe5801f67db725a91188b94c21cfa6f931754124d46f904a902d6

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9912396 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9912396v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9912396 · pith_short_12: 5ZYBMSCNT7SY · pith_short_16: 5ZYBMSCNT7SYAH3H · pith_short_8: 5ZYBMSCN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5ZYBMSCNT7SYAH3H3NZFVEIYRO \
  | 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: ee7016484d9fe5801f67db725a91188b94c21cfa6f931754124d46f904a902d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "236c2b841e277a5d121a2de6ca25dd658720a117033d3bf149a63937007fce87",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-12-18T04:36:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "953e12461c769aa439fc586365a143697a2e8cee13a30b7278f47a8aa3db230e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9912396",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}