Pith Number

pith:I4EPNLHK

pith:2017:I4EPNLHK7FN2VUQ3EROJRUWOU5

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Predicted Stellar Kinematics of a Kiloparsec-Scale Nuclear Disc (or Ring) in the Milky Way

Melissa Ness, Oscar A. Gonzalez, Samuel W. F. Earp, Victor P. Debattista

arxiv:1710.05635 v1 · 2017-10-16 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{I4EPNLHK7FN2VUQ3EROJRUWOU5}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:28:13.424260Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4708f6aceaf95baad21b245c98d2cea7552006a9c128261f44401b57353513a3

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.05635 · arxiv_version: 1710.05635v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.05635 · pith_short_12: I4EPNLHK7FN2 · pith_short_16: I4EPNLHK7FN2VUQ3 · pith_short_8: I4EPNLHK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/I4EPNLHK7FN2VUQ3EROJRUWOU5 \
  | 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: 4708f6aceaf95baad21b245c98d2cea7552006a9c128261f44401b57353513a3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "57a9ac68e3666c2fcc605b8886bb22bf9be1231126e4bc4e4ec6988caf86be68",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-16T11:54:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bdb1af3164a2b4abe54f2e9e8aa7db48297905158d45a95e43cb53d4608f63f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.05635",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}