Pith Number

pith:EGTDQQWV

pith:2001:EGTDQQWVU73OZI7ZXQFECNXMZM

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The Milky Way in X-rays for an outside observer: Log(N)-Log(S) and Luminosity Function of X-ray binaries from RXTE/ASM data

((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik, (2)), (2) Space Reseach Institute), H.-J. Grimm (1), M. Gilfanov ((1), R. Sunyaev ((1)

arxiv:astro-ph/0109239 v2 · 2001-09-16 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EGTDQQWVU73OZI7ZXQFECNXMZM}

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Discovery of EP J175257.3-351923 as a Candidate Black Hole Low-Mass X-ray Binary

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:19:41.707832Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

21a63842d5a7f6eca3f9bc0a4136eccb18bf4c485856786abaa9961d37feb654

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0109239 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0109239v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0109239 · pith_short_12: EGTDQQWVU73O · pith_short_16: EGTDQQWVU73OZI7Z · pith_short_8: EGTDQQWV

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EGTDQQWVU73OZI7ZXQFECNXMZM \
  | 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: 21a63842d5a7f6eca3f9bc0a4136eccb18bf4c485856786abaa9961d37feb654

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "25c70283c2077801b6162534be8e5b746cb6d43ea703a929c705f4d4a3659263",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2001-09-16T15:07:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0f6efe79b4d37d11543e8d8bc068e168f073d2bb75623e3aa7049d89c36a4db3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0109239",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}