Pith Number

pith:4D37JYRJ

pith:2017:4D37JYRJMZ2TU45MMJOM7KIHXB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A powerful flare from Sgr A* confirms the synchrotron nature of the X-ray emission

A. Goldwurm, A. Merloni, C. Hailey, C. Jin, D. Haggard, E. George, F. Eisenhauer, F. Harrison, G. Ponti, I. Waisberg, J. Dexter, K. Mori, K. Nandra, M. Clavel, M. Habibi, N. Degenaar, O. Pfuhl, P. M. Plewa, R. Genzel, R. Terrier, S. Gillessen, S. Scaringi, S. Zhang, T. Ott

arxiv:1703.03410 v1 · 2017-03-09 · astro-ph.HE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4D37JYRJMZ2TU45MMJOM7KIHXB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:12.353231Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0f7f4e22966753a73ac625ccfa907b85d563bbd23bc54ac6b402e8c69f12cfa

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.03410 · arxiv_version: 1703.03410v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.03410 · pith_short_12: 4D37JYRJMZ2T · pith_short_16: 4D37JYRJMZ2TU45M · pith_short_8: 4D37JYRJ

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/4D37JYRJMZ2TU45MMJOM7KIHXB \
  | 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: e0f7f4e22966753a73ac625ccfa907b85d563bbd23bc54ac6b402e8c69f12cfa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b95609d33719185fa02ada3022d8a1aff863aa89a35a4a1efbe066eacec7027a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-09T19:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "67c7a7d1bc79d2fc51979929e9fa1370d71a2af1dc8f851c9f1c784d06878da9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.03410",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}