Pith Number

pith:IVZYKL34

pith:2018:IVZYKL34CL6CK6ZRJQ2XJKP4JZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Galactic Centre source G2 was unlikely born in any of the known massive binaries

Andreas Burkert, Diego Calder\'on, Frank Eisenhauer, Jorge Cuadra, Marc Schartmann, Maryam Habibi, Philipp Plewa

arxiv:1805.05341 v2 · 2018-05-14 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IVZYKL34CL6CK6ZRJQ2XJKP4JZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:07.454527Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4573852f7c12fc257b314c3574a9fc4e57cde30eb23a470a194cd31042e31ab5

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.05341 · arxiv_version: 1805.05341v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.05341 · pith_short_12: IVZYKL34CL6C · pith_short_16: IVZYKL34CL6CK6ZR · pith_short_8: IVZYKL34

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IVZYKL34CL6CK6ZRJQ2XJKP4JZ \
  | 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: 4573852f7c12fc257b314c3574a9fc4e57cde30eb23a470a194cd31042e31ab5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "31c15ca96b7b8f135c4f5bc8d2c64a98af84cc2edb5854d75d6c4dc0438165b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-14T18:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4985d5cf07d1af1c451b1ebaa56989d31a7ef2bc2d4523b9bd702a4fbf93dc52"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.05341",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}