Pith Number

pith:6EYB3VCI

pith:2023:6EYB3VCI3FQVKOG3NPI4MCSB6O

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Widespread Hot Ammonia in the Central Kiloparsec of the Milky Way

David S. Meier, E.A.C Mills, Juergen Ott, Natalie Butterfield, Tierra M. Candelaria

arxiv:2303.11222 v1 · 2023-03-20 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6EYB3VCI3FQVKOG3NPI4MCSB6O}

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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	2026-07-05T05:52:47.127899Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f1301dd448d9615538db6bd1c60a41f39b29488740b3712a9df766f9dc9a09d0

Aliases

arxiv: 2303.11222 · arxiv_version: 2303.11222v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.11222 · pith_short_12: 6EYB3VCI3FQV · pith_short_16: 6EYB3VCI3FQVKOG3 · pith_short_8: 6EYB3VCI

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/6EYB3VCI3FQVKOG3NPI4MCSB6O \
  | 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: f1301dd448d9615538db6bd1c60a41f39b29488740b3712a9df766f9dc9a09d0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5a6ddfe2228e7a8862409c7541a933ef4187d52962b706b5dff5e251a3e76855",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2023-03-20T15:58:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "55f5b5516b323da7731a5096ee52f74915c575b6bf44610e46c9db76779e63b3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2303.11222",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}