Pith Number

pith:Z2EYNCD2

pith:2017:Z2EYNCD2MXO3ORTDQHPWCF53Z4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Future of Black Hole Astrophysics in the LIGO-VIRGO-LPF Era

Richard Anantua, Roger Blandford

arxiv:1705.03119 v1 · 2017-05-08 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z2EYNCD2MXO3ORTDQHPWCF53Z4}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:41:24.018298Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce8986887a65ddb7466381df6117bbcf183a441fbc2bbf862874d97afcaa6add

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.03119 · arxiv_version: 1705.03119v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.03119 · pith_short_12: Z2EYNCD2MXO3 · pith_short_16: Z2EYNCD2MXO3ORTD · pith_short_8: Z2EYNCD2

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/Z2EYNCD2MXO3ORTDQHPWCF53Z4 \
  | 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: ce8986887a65ddb7466381df6117bbcf183a441fbc2bbf862874d97afcaa6add

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "33012af94d1d450af6ead62d79775c8ad54f0c41c317eef9cf40a744093dfd9d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-08T23:09:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "07c51a3ece9d51f52eb01b0e5238ffee66a622aeda7ec98814f062c0468d2660"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.03119",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}