Pith Number

pith:Q6I2H75H

pith:1997:Q6I2H75H43777P6RP62PJXXL2Q

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Simultaneous HST/ASCA Observations of LMC X-4: X-ray Ionization Effects on a Stellar Wind

B. Boroson (Center for Astrophysics), F. H. Cheng (Villanova University), F. Nagase (ISAS), R. McCray (JILA), S. D. Vrtilek (Center for Astrophysics)

arxiv:astro-ph/9706171 v1 · 1997-06-17 · astro-ph

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:40:17.295572Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8791a3ffa7e6ffffbfd17fb4f4deebd4307831d82646fc44d7f069532af372bc

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9706171 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9706171v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9706171 · pith_short_12: Q6I2H75H4377 · pith_short_16: Q6I2H75H43777P6R · pith_short_8: Q6I2H75H

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q6I2H75H43777P6RP62PJXXL2Q \
  | 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: 8791a3ffa7e6ffffbfd17fb4f4deebd4307831d82646fc44d7f069532af372bc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "55cf89733e2fc2fe5b9e5e642d4c0e83b6cb7aa32fc9053013a89bfb32ed349a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-06-17T14:21:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a56cfa2d4ea26fa825aa8c63866bfaf8a9ebc66ef4b62c060a5fef442f4e1450"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9706171",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}