Pith Number

pith:MAINBPDT

pith:2012:MAINBPDTYVISXI4Z6ODARGWY7F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Suzaku investigation into the nature of the nearest ultraluminous X-ray source, M33 X-8

(2) Shibaura Institute of Technology, (3) Hiroshima University), Aya Kubota (2), Hiroshi Sato (2), Naoki Isobe (1), Tsunefumi Mizuno (3) ((1) ISAS/JAXA

arxiv:1205.5331 v1 · 2012-05-24 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MAINBPDTYVISXI4Z6ODARGWY7F}

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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	2026-05-18T01:57:18.078750Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6010d0bc73c5512ba399f386089ad8f96ae0c06e24bb94b3b5564722da2b0a36

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.5331 · arxiv_version: 1205.5331v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.5331 · pith_short_12: MAINBPDTYVIS · pith_short_16: MAINBPDTYVISXI4Z · pith_short_8: MAINBPDT

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/MAINBPDTYVISXI4Z6ODARGWY7F \
  | 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: 6010d0bc73c5512ba399f386089ad8f96ae0c06e24bb94b3b5564722da2b0a36

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "92a9c5bfb2e5457e2dbc4f327d2a85668902d045b9cd49c1ddc0dd940890a351",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-24T05:17:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d0f116b60a8f0ef7dea555a67d06e5ebb17830a351b23348ba760d20a888617"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.5331",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}