Pith Number

pith:6BKVTXIR

pith:2018:6BKVTXIRS72F6PMA7RWS7HPLF4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Unrecognized Astrometric Confusion in the Galactic Centre

P. M. Plewa, R. Sari

arxiv:1802.08043 v1 · 2018-02-22 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6BKVTXIRS72F6PMA7RWS7HPLF4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:19.511456Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f05559dd1197f45f3d80fc6d2f9deb2f2cd2ffa937f5886d0f3aef5f4d8ab57f

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.08043 · arxiv_version: 1802.08043v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.08043 · pith_short_12: 6BKVTXIRS72F · pith_short_16: 6BKVTXIRS72F6PMA · pith_short_8: 6BKVTXIR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6BKVTXIRS72F6PMA7RWS7HPLF4 \
  | 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: f05559dd1197f45f3d80fc6d2f9deb2f2cd2ffa937f5886d0f3aef5f4d8ab57f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2a5174552704d3e7c9c2d08529ea31ee9e13d1440f4a7f60d69d5a493c8b9af4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-22T13:50:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6d57c8a66e694cbe1b181fcc35e283201f941e7eaaeaa869aca4c9f9604bae8b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.08043",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}