Pith Number

pith:B5DCTJZH

pith:2008:B5DCTJZHIUE4CXCJV2YYBUDT5H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ionization Cone in the X-ray Binary LMC X-1

(2) Anglo-Australian Observatory, Australia, Australia), J. Bland-Hawthorn (1), R. Cooke (1), R. Sharp (2), Sydney, Z. Kuncic (1) ((1) University of Sydney

arxiv:0809.2140 v1 · 2008-09-12 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B5DCTJZHIUE4CXCJV2YYBUDT5H}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T17:12:41.993526Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f4629a7274509c15c49aeb180d073e9cbd62aacfb3462d7cf2ff6b7ed59fed4

Aliases

arxiv: 0809.2140 · arxiv_version: 0809.2140v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0809.2140 · pith_short_12: B5DCTJZHIUE4 · pith_short_16: B5DCTJZHIUE4CXCJ · pith_short_8: B5DCTJZH

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/B5DCTJZHIUE4CXCJV2YYBUDT5H \
  | 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: 0f4629a7274509c15c49aeb180d073e9cbd62aacfb3462d7cf2ff6b7ed59fed4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7b5f12b2c24d8352991d4f4c8c6bc6ae20b25d2a9281c0294954bbb61a572540",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-09-12T06:19:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97221b47bbcf3bba2bd5313756a3b355ca482622cb791c658a3b3ce9dd656577"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0809.2140",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}