Pith Number

pith:FIX3WHBR

pith:2023:FIX3WHBREALJYEV5PB2XBWHTCK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Updated Reference Frame for the Galactic Inner Parsec

Andrea Ghez, Jennie Paine, Jeremy Darling, Karl M. Menten, Mark J. Reid, Shoko Sakai

arxiv:2308.03147 v1 · 2023-08-06 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FIX3WHBREALJYEV5PB2XBWHTCK}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T06:38:12.636288Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2a2fbb1c3120169c12bd787570d8f3128a68eb7bd748ccdaeceedf9c24f6bc24

Aliases

arxiv: 2308.03147 · arxiv_version: 2308.03147v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.03147 · pith_short_12: FIX3WHBREALJ · pith_short_16: FIX3WHBREALJYEV5 · pith_short_8: FIX3WHBR

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/FIX3WHBREALJYEV5PB2XBWHTCK \
  | 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: 2a2fbb1c3120169c12bd787570d8f3128a68eb7bd748ccdaeceedf9c24f6bc24

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2046bd02b94489eddae348119bf3a6a1011f443335355322719f93bdb1ab1756",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.SR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-06T15:49:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7bec4e3513d455ceae9cce43b462a362632306b9ca61043136a093aab377c9ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2308.03147",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}