Pith Number

pith:GLDE3WCZ

pith:2012:GLDE3WCZLMGWBB6JWOL6YQJM7A

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Shortest Known Period Star Orbiting our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole

A. Boehle, A. M. Ghez, E. E. Becklin, J. R. Lu, K. Matthews, L. Meyer, M. R. Morris, R. Schoedel, S. Yelda, T. Do

arxiv:1210.1294 v1 · 2012-10-04 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GLDE3WCZLMGWBB6JWOL6YQJM7A}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:54:06.001380Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

32c64dd8595b0d6087c9b397ec412cf8187b4c918d48104a8c1d19329dd2d160

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.1294 · arxiv_version: 1210.1294v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.1294 · pith_short_12: GLDE3WCZLMGW · pith_short_16: GLDE3WCZLMGWBB6J · pith_short_8: GLDE3WCZ

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/GLDE3WCZLMGWBB6JWOL6YQJM7A \
  | 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: 32c64dd8595b0d6087c9b397ec412cf8187b4c918d48104a8c1d19329dd2d160

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc167be03dd274874d91bfa91af30145323fba4b0c8f08134ccad04d372aa40b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-04T04:45:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "81563ea60d9c2de0db12d12912452fde6d71b15166483bcf59e1567599074a3c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.1294",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}