Pith Number

pith:4VXY2WFD

pith:2016:4VXY2WFDQMRN6AXWECFMUCUGWZ

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The late-type stellar density profile in the Galactic Center: A statistical approach

Andrea M. Ghez, Breann N. Sitarski, Gregory D. Martinez, Jessica R. Lu, Mark R. Morris, Samantha N. Chappell, Sylvana Yelda, Tuan Do

arxiv:1610.02437 v1 · 2016-10-07 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4VXY2WFDQMRN6AXWECFMUCUGWZ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:50:18.653116Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e56f8d58a38322df02f6208aca0a86b669576ce39d975871a8f8f10405010402

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.02437 · arxiv_version: 1610.02437v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.02437 · pith_short_12: 4VXY2WFDQMRN · pith_short_16: 4VXY2WFDQMRN6AXW · pith_short_8: 4VXY2WFD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4VXY2WFDQMRN6AXWECFMUCUGWZ \
  | 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: e56f8d58a38322df02f6208aca0a86b669576ce39d975871a8f8f10405010402

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0e00b29d544096594c8459bb531cb2abc00f792b85667563d0c02af62978d9a7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-07T22:12:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "195a2669f79153482f70850b4dada52c7c8fbf3652d94ace7cf9468f57e56bb2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.02437",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}