Pith Number

pith:B4IRCYJV

pith:1996:B4IRCYJVD2QPBVQIDM2526SBOY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the persistent X-ray emission from the soft gamma-ray repeaters

V.V. Usov

arxiv:astro-ph/9612091 v1 · 1996-12-10 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B4IRCYJVD2QPBVQIDM2526SBOY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:40.419161Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f111161351ea0f0d6081b35dd7a417629ef20e258cee4e085912ff52f61ee03

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9612091 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9612091v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9612091 · pith_short_12: B4IRCYJVD2QP · pith_short_16: B4IRCYJVD2QPBVQI · pith_short_8: B4IRCYJV

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/B4IRCYJVD2QPBVQIDM2526SBOY \
  | 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: 0f111161351ea0f0d6081b35dd7a417629ef20e258cee4e085912ff52f61ee03

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0ab24d1af73fe0a97219a9bdb4f647106fff16442044dcfd58cc00b3a218c2b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-12-10T07:21:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "794b5bcdb14fb8ce7b66e078ec5f6903b27dca88fb5c9ae66e48ee9e5dfce704"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9612091",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}