Pith Number

pith:XEESOA5V

pith:1999:XEESOA5VTUNONBIGFUEBE3IBUT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VLT observations of GRB 990510 and its environment

C. Kouveliotou, E. Palazzi, E. Pian, E. Rol, F. Frontera, F.V. Hessman, H. Nicklas, J. van Paradijs, K. Beuermann, K. Reinsch, N. Masetti, P.M. Vreeswijk, T.J. Galama

arxiv:astro-ph/9909043 v1 · 1999-09-02 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XEESOA5VTUNONBIGFUEBE3IBUT}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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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1 paper in Pith

Short GRB 090510: a magnetized neutron star binary merger leading to a black hole

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:17:04.880602Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b9092703b59d1ae685062d08126d01a4d9b9503f8c3d7dc1628ce30dd011b790

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/9909043 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/9909043v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9909043 · pith_short_12: XEESOA5VTUNO · pith_short_16: XEESOA5VTUNONBIG · pith_short_8: XEESOA5V

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/XEESOA5VTUNONBIGFUEBE3IBUT \
  | 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: b9092703b59d1ae685062d08126d01a4d9b9503f8c3d7dc1628ce30dd011b790

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad64eb629c8df393862373fb4808690db30853ea5adb962f266ba215f3511465",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-09-02T10:36:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9f48c6dc1e674954240bed600cf9de60593d399218f4309ac0b7f08ace919f0d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/9909043",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}