Pith Number

pith:HZXVRRUO

pith:2026:HZXVRRUO37STS2FNIR7CS3CTVZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

X-ray Reflection as Diagnostic of Supermassive Black Hole Binary Properties

David R. Ballantyne, Julie Malewicz, Laura Brenneman, Tamara Bogdanovi\'c, Thomas Dauser

arxiv:2608.04961 v1 · 2026-08-05 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HZXVRRUO37STS2FNIR7CS3CTVZ}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-06T01:47:52.917420Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3e6f58c68edfe53968ad447e296c53ae4cb959ff4279d0c0b7c1905915a70cd5

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.04961 · arxiv_version: 2608.04961v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.04961 · pith_short_12: HZXVRRUO37ST · pith_short_16: HZXVRRUO37STS2FN · pith_short_8: HZXVRRUO

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/HZXVRRUO37STS2FNIR7CS3CTVZ \
  | 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: 3e6f58c68edfe53968ad447e296c53ae4cb959ff4279d0c0b7c1905915a70cd5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f324c0d711aa913fbdf404337782f1899c853482ba0db44f663802be901c0d98",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T15:32:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "270f08bea5057e1228d16c69b8bd2f9796a3561c29c7b8fa63d7f9072a2c2584"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.04961",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}