Pith Number

pith:PCSA522A

pith:2009:PCSA522AZHMXCJTCETTEUAZ6XJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Compton scattering as the explanation of the peculiar X-ray properties of Cyg X-3

A. A. Zdziarski, M. Gierlinski, R. Misra

arxiv:0905.1086 v3 · 2009-05-07 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PCSA522AZHMXCJTCETTEUAZ6XJ}

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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	2026-05-18T04:25:02.015847Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

78a40eeb40c9d971266224e64a033eba6f3c18e2eba4903be85ab1ca60229918

Aliases

arxiv: 0905.1086 · arxiv_version: 0905.1086v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0905.1086 · pith_short_12: PCSA522AZHMX · pith_short_16: PCSA522AZHMXCJTC · pith_short_8: PCSA522A

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PCSA522AZHMXCJTCETTEUAZ6XJ \
  | 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: 78a40eeb40c9d971266224e64a033eba6f3c18e2eba4903be85ab1ca60229918

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "18f2e8b5cf0437046aecf3ad458532cbe533e3351326bc0b7159496d7e95221c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2009-05-07T18:05:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5df481ae604e196bdf5907fbcfa0c4cd8a8fa48d5c6e0ffcecfed31b8af3ce1d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0905.1086",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}