Pith Number

pith:OV5WNKQT

pith:2014:OV5WNKQT36LHCX3KMOL2AMHBPN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

X-Raying an Accretion Disk in Realtime: the Evolution of Ionized Reflection during a Superburst from 4U 1636-536

D.R. Ballantyne, E. Kuulkers, L. Keek, T.E. Strohmayer

arxiv:1410.5434 v2 · 2014-10-20 · astro-ph.HE

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\pithnumber{OV5WNKQT36LHCX3KMOL2AMHBPN}

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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	2026-05-18T01:41:43.345041Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

757b66aa13df96715f6a6397a030e17b7127b393d7c440226b745428323d3a6f

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.5434 · arxiv_version: 1410.5434v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.5434 · pith_short_12: OV5WNKQT36LH · pith_short_16: OV5WNKQT36LHCX3K · pith_short_8: OV5WNKQT

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/OV5WNKQT36LHCX3KMOL2AMHBPN \
  | 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: 757b66aa13df96715f6a6397a030e17b7127b393d7c440226b745428323d3a6f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e5f8290f9e78ebc44c640e707df4c6e0d424ab30199d63129077cef5cf65ce45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-20T20:00:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee329648d2aed2162fa0037b1d7c5e087cfd53223178569621bf8ac97509664f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.5434",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}