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pith:BOKBI3TU

pith:2017:BOKBI3TUJ7VHHBVGMGPFNJSNAJ

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Where are LIGO's Big Black Holes?

Daniel E. Holz, Maya Fishbach

arxiv:1709.08584 v2 · 2017-09-25 · astro-ph.HE · gr-qc

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5 papers in Pith

Is the Binary Black Hole Population Inference from Gravitational-Wave Data Robust?

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Gravitational-wave parameter estimation to the Moon and back: massive binaries and the case of GW231123

GWTC-2.1: Deep Extended Catalog of Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

The Black Hole Mass Gap as a New Probe of Millicharged Particles

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:27:35.804154Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b94146e744fea7386a6619e56a64d025658d1ec867f7e26fe174b5ecc91bd1a

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.08584 · arxiv_version: 1709.08584v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.08584 · pith_short_12: BOKBI3TUJ7VH · pith_short_16: BOKBI3TUJ7VHHBVG · pith_short_8: BOKBI3TU

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BOKBI3TUJ7VHHBVGMGPFNJSNAJ \
  | 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: 0b94146e744fea7386a6619e56a64d025658d1ec867f7e26fe174b5ecc91bd1a

Canonical record JSON

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    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-25T16:37:07Z",
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