Pith Number

pith:5KW2BEYM

pith:2017:5KW2BEYM5OGY3N2ROGJZQ5OZIQ

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Measuring the effects of General Relativity at the Galactic Center with Future Extremely Large Telescopes

(2) UC San Diego), Andrea Ghez (1), Arezu Dehghanfar (1), Aurelien Hees (1), Shelley Wright (2) ((1) UCLA, Tuan Do (1)

arxiv:1711.06389 v1 · 2017-11-17 · astro-ph.GA · gr-qc

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5KW2BEYM5OGY3N2ROGJZQ5OZIQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:21.238030Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eaada0930ceb8d8db75171939875d9443f0c49ba06afea92b22ebc605876f147

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.06389 · arxiv_version: 1711.06389v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.06389 · pith_short_12: 5KW2BEYM5OGY · pith_short_16: 5KW2BEYM5OGY3N2R · pith_short_8: 5KW2BEYM

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/5KW2BEYM5OGY3N2ROGJZQ5OZIQ \
  | 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: eaada0930ceb8d8db75171939875d9443f0c49ba06afea92b22ebc605876f147

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "733884946dde0e56495d5a8d478aa3a8433492bcf36734c89b462c38348ea03a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-17T03:42:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e45d33e907f08507442c2f1977df56f8003e1169aac55b4d9dd03d84f2b221d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.06389",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}