Pith Number

pith:ZSWKDRWW

pith:2018:ZSWKDRWWTEMVDHVSOFGHRIU3VO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery of a transient ultraluminous X-ray source in the elliptical galaxy M86

Arunav Kundu, Katherine L. Rhode, Lennart M. van Haaften, Stephen E. Zepf, Thomas J. Maccarone

arxiv:1811.10595 v2 · 2018-11-26 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZSWKDRWWTEMVDHVSOFGHRIU3VO}

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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	2026-05-17T23:52:15.203221Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ccaca1c6d69919519eb2714c78a29babbe3010720e4bc90013147ad8ff039e3e

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.10595 · arxiv_version: 1811.10595v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.10595 · pith_short_12: ZSWKDRWWTEMV · pith_short_16: ZSWKDRWWTEMVDHVS · pith_short_8: ZSWKDRWW

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/ZSWKDRWWTEMVDHVSOFGHRIU3VO \
  | 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: ccaca1c6d69919519eb2714c78a29babbe3010720e4bc90013147ad8ff039e3e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "03acaf57d36719e9484bf1d8752c8c599c03b59de530bf8d3bc2c18d72a84451",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-26T18:56:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "76b5a12a47604b2f27a8c4baac5024d49ab1cd70d00ff9b8a066a702ff0e7fab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.10595",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}