Pith Number

pith:VFG57C46

pith:2012:VFG57C46DJ7MDYXWSBVVVH7JNU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The properties of long gamma-ray bursts in massive compact binaries

(2) West Virginia University, (3) University of Warwick), Andrew J. Levan (3), Chunglee Kim (2), Melvyn B. Davies (1) ((1) Lund University, Ross P. Church (1)

arxiv:1205.0552 v2 · 2012-05-02 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VFG57C46DJ7MDYXWSBVVVH7JNU}

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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	2026-05-18T01:57:38.767049Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a94ddf8b9e1a7ec1e2f6906b5a9fe96d2196412ce5ad59e3f25abbdf3719bc9e

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.0552 · arxiv_version: 1205.0552v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.0552 · pith_short_12: VFG57C46DJ7M · pith_short_16: VFG57C46DJ7MDYXW · pith_short_8: VFG57C46

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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/VFG57C46DJ7MDYXWSBVVVH7JNU \
  | 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: a94ddf8b9e1a7ec1e2f6906b5a9fe96d2196412ce5ad59e3f25abbdf3719bc9e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae1f1628dbf8baed57197c8c8665c598f1ac5999c2b2dde278277838aef6f4df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-02T20:00:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6068f21ca178306628a11b9fb0d0f0709e373b958646a92cd4d21ccca6c225cb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.0552",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}