Pith Number

pith:Q4LLM2XS

pith:2017:Q4LLM2XSEUYUO73DNKZBVC3564

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Periodic optical variability and debris accretion in white dwarfs: a test for a causal connection

Abraham Loeb, Alekzander Kosakowski, Boris T. G\"ansicke, Dan Maoz, Eric Agol, Fergal Mullally, Jay Farihi, Mukremin Kilic, Na'ama Hallakoun, Patrick Dufour, Tsevi Mazeh, Warren R. Brown

arxiv:1711.10488 v2 · 2017-11-28 · astro-ph.SR · astro-ph.EP

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\pithnumber{Q4LLM2XSEUYUO73DNKZBVC3564}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:59.358210Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8716b66af22531477f636ab21a8b7df706456266cda373ac09110ef29ff925bc

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.10488 · arxiv_version: 1711.10488v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.10488 · pith_short_12: Q4LLM2XSEUYU · pith_short_16: Q4LLM2XSEUYUO73D · pith_short_8: Q4LLM2XS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q4LLM2XSEUYUO73DNKZBVC3564 \
  | 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: 8716b66af22531477f636ab21a8b7df706456266cda373ac09110ef29ff925bc

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d9f8a3d2693e2f95f1a5396cc10c873210e25b5b824a784f20e29095e8d874c2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-28T19:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e41993eac9c738c30d7871d6f6a6a93476235092aa7fb2d324cee889dfe05a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.10488",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}