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pith:MESB72TS

pith:2004:MESB72TSLR5LABNXZOORMYWWLN

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First Stellar Binary Black Holes: Strongest Gravitational Wave Burst Sources

Bronislaw Rudak, Krzysztof Belczynski, Tomasz Bulik

arxiv:astro-ph/0403361 v1 · 2004-03-15 · astro-ph · gr-qc

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Evidence for eccentricity in the population of binary black holes observed by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:43:14.659910Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

61241fea725c7ab005b7cb9d1662d65b439a1b4abd8374e3f423bff5ba9e1255

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0403361 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0403361v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0403361 · pith_short_12: MESB72TSLR5L · pith_short_16: MESB72TSLR5LABNX · pith_short_8: MESB72TS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MESB72TSLR5LABNXZOORMYWWLN \
  | 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: 61241fea725c7ab005b7cb9d1662d65b439a1b4abd8374e3f423bff5ba9e1255

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b58b0594d881eccce097582750119a0cabf9bd6c32b38c7a8e6c9cda43cd0a7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2004-03-15T23:12:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6df3b2bcbe961d1a7503700b5d7005b849fa97271e10c5cd2cd9a26b3dca314d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0403361",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}