Pith Number

pith:BTTSZOB6

pith:2012:BTTSZOB66GQI3EXVBZIXFZI44H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

MAXI J1659-152: The shortest orbital period black-hole transient in outburst

A. Ibarra, A.J. van der Horst, A.M.T. Pollock, A.N. Parmar, C. Kouveliotou, E. Kuulkers, E.P.J. van den Heuvel, J.A. Kennea, J. Chenevez, J. Homan, J.-U. Ness, M. Cadolle Bel, M. Diaz Trigo, T. Belloni, T. Munoz-Darias

arxiv:1204.5840 v2 · 2012-04-26 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BTTSZOB66GQI3EXVBZIXFZI44H}

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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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First computed	2026-05-18T01:57:44.017456Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ce72cb83ef1a08d92f50e5172e51ce1f926cb4c0cf8c92a648407f4f51a1ade

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.5840 · arxiv_version: 1204.5840v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.5840 · pith_short_12: BTTSZOB66GQI · pith_short_16: BTTSZOB66GQI3EXV · pith_short_8: BTTSZOB6

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/BTTSZOB66GQI3EXVBZIXFZI44H \
  | 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: 0ce72cb83ef1a08d92f50e5172e51ce1f926cb4c0cf8c92a648407f4f51a1ade

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d89455baa519313a9f8d183889a23ce9d20093a719b50e92d323d121802ce4b4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-26T06:29:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "460cab5fca968b277a0d5382cae2914432ef98c49294d2838784357cb9a5ba92"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.5840",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}