Pith Number

pith:5RK4527U

pith:2016:5RK4527UTIHA4MH4LNR6JAOTLI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Galactic Center compared with nuclei of nearby galaxies

F. Combes (Obs-Paris, LERMA)

arxiv:1608.04009 v3 · 2016-08-13 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5RK4527UTIHA4MH4LNR6JAOTLI}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:50:19.485305Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec55ceebf49a0e0e30fc5b63e481d35a2d2a5aa7d033d6a54b301219a8b3834e

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.04009 · arxiv_version: 1608.04009v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.04009 · pith_short_12: 5RK4527UTIHA · pith_short_16: 5RK4527UTIHA4MH4 · pith_short_8: 5RK4527U

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5RK4527UTIHA4MH4LNR6JAOTLI \
  | 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: ec55ceebf49a0e0e30fc5b63e481d35a2d2a5aa7d033d6a54b301219a8b3834e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "64dc2dc2efe923ee84f5ebb4b4fc2b723b57c5a31c164452c882064da2048385",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-13T17:07:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ddd2ff5115b7fd6a6f77bfb58738e24ccb83929dfb6db5a66fef221dbd2156f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.04009",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}