Pith Number

pith:G2BCCJDP

pith:2013:G2BCCJDPJ7VPE5OWYM6W4UHC7L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Unveiling the Massive Stars in the Galactic Center

Angela Cotera, Daniel Q. Wang, Hui Dong, Jon Mauerhan, Mark R. Morris

arxiv:1312.0671 v1 · 2013-12-03 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G2BCCJDPJ7VPE5OWYM6W4UHC7L}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T01:45:59.460372Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

368221246f4feaf275d6c33d6e50e2fad745e29c99c939ffd2441fc401858a1e

Aliases

arxiv: 1312.0671 · arxiv_version: 1312.0671v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.0671 · pith_short_12: G2BCCJDPJ7VP · pith_short_16: G2BCCJDPJ7VPE5OW · pith_short_8: G2BCCJDP

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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/G2BCCJDPJ7VPE5OWYM6W4UHC7L \
  | 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: 368221246f4feaf275d6c33d6e50e2fad745e29c99c939ffd2441fc401858a1e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23c9e057cbb91485bc3ddefc3b416e9ae7e59b7f5a8467eea6a49470b20971ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2013-12-03T00:54:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4de4e66fea55ccda2340ab1270521ab67530225520f5524348a745b5e59e2d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1312.0671",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}