Pith Number

pith:44EBCD2S

pith:2003:44EBCD2SWXGVEE4TKNCUFAQNIP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The First Measurement of Spectral Lines in a Short-Period Star Bound to the Galaxy's Central Black Hole: A Paradox of Youth

A. M. Ghez, A. Tanner, B. T. Soifer, D. Thompson, E. E. Becklin, G. Duchene, G. Neugebauer, I. McLean, J. Larkin, K. Matthews, M. Morris, S. D. Hornstein, S. Salim, T. Kremenek

arxiv:astro-ph/0302299 v2 · 2003-02-15 · astro-ph

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\pithnumber{44EBCD2SWXGVEE4TKNCUFAQNIP}

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3 papers in Pith

Accretion of Primordial Black Holes in Stellar Interiors

A Kinematic Study of Wolf-Rayet Stars at the Galactic Center I: Binary Candidates and Constraints on the Binary Fraction

Particle dynamics around an electrically charged Kiselev black hole embedded in quintessence

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:36:30.323267Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e708110f52b5cd521393534542820d43c2f65e36678baf08dd349cc64403acf7

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0302299 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0302299v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0302299 · pith_short_12: 44EBCD2SWXGV · pith_short_16: 44EBCD2SWXGVEE4T · pith_short_8: 44EBCD2S

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/44EBCD2SWXGVEE4TKNCUFAQNIP \
  | 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: e708110f52b5cd521393534542820d43c2f65e36678baf08dd349cc64403acf7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7124494f3b725cfe4abc3c8b2a440ced75105e9affdc70209b7b547284363a83",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2003-02-15T01:26:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9e969aea949204c4109e9e9714aa4baaf176332cce21f31899cde361091bc9e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0302299",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}