Pith Number

pith:4PBIBKHN

pith:2024:4PBIBKHN3RM4QNFS6JW43J5QOA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery of a Dense Association of Stars in the Vicinity of the Supermassive Black Hole Sgr A*

Andreas Eckart, Harshitha K. Bhat, Michal Zaja\v{c}ek, S. Elaheh Hosseini, Silke Britzen, Vladim\'ir Karas

arxiv:2411.08970 v1 · 2024-11-13 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4PBIBKHN3RM4QNFS6JW43J5QOA}

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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	2026-07-05T09:35:17.674266Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3c280a8eddc59c834b2f26dcda7b07019d2ca4ad8c01e6869ba808f4c6a9728

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.08970 · arxiv_version: 2411.08970v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.08970 · pith_short_12: 4PBIBKHN3RM4 · pith_short_16: 4PBIBKHN3RM4QNFS · pith_short_8: 4PBIBKHN

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/4PBIBKHN3RM4QNFS6JW43J5QOA \
  | 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: e3c280a8eddc59c834b2f26dcda7b07019d2ca4ad8c01e6869ba808f4c6a9728

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a94ea5f7f6a6e159bb8e2cb1a4cd6473c0d61269e83aae0dd325eb4b5fe25647",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-13T19:03:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4b511352facdba6fad71cadd86cb41605a722d956a395fffe9774a3e2a74a928"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2411.08970",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}