Pith Number

pith:AQMJ4FQW

pith:2023:AQMJ4FQWIVCG3SHDEYXDHROVRO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Evidence of a Decreased Binary Fraction for Massive Stars Within 20 Milliparsecs of the Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center

Abhimat K. Gautam, Andrea Ghez, Anna Ciurlo, Aur\'elien Hees, Devin S. Chu, Eric E. Becklin, Jessica R. Lu, Keith Matthews, Kelly Kosmo O'neil, Matthew W. Hosek Jr., Rory O. Bentley, Shoko Sakai, Smadar Naoz, Tuan Do, Zhuo Chen

arxiv:2303.16977 v1 · 2023-03-29 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AQMJ4FQWIVCG3SHDEYXDHROVRO}

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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	2026-07-05T06:09:09.450337Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

04189e161645446dc8e3262e33c5d58ba50241ef6f841448bc5dc0d946335d73

Aliases

arxiv: 2303.16977 · arxiv_version: 2303.16977v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.16977 · pith_short_12: AQMJ4FQWIVCG · pith_short_16: AQMJ4FQWIVCG3SHD · pith_short_8: AQMJ4FQW

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/AQMJ4FQWIVCG3SHDEYXDHROVRO \
  | 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: 04189e161645446dc8e3262e33c5d58ba50241ef6f841448bc5dc0d946335d73

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4f0f675904c4af3d07261fc947ffca0d58cc67399a70928e680f623f47f6bd73",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2023-03-29T19:17:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9e0949c7a5fdd18d6410d06486cd9edd3c55cc1dd53792a407ee54e875bf814c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2303.16977",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}