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pith:2008:J74UZ77B44QRZKLO5EUP3HTRUV
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Measuring Distance and Properties of the Milky Way's Central Supermassive Black Hole with Stellar Orbits

A. M. Ghez, E. E. Becklin, J. K. Dunn, J. Naiman, J. R. Lu, K. Matthews, M. Milosavljevic, M. Morris, N. N. Weinberg, S. Salim, S. Yelda, T. Do, T. Kremenek

arxiv:0808.2870 v1 · 2008-08-21 · astro-ph

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Canonical hash

4ff94cffe1e7211ca96ee928fd9e71a540831447f55022d53cee6f0df54fdbc1

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arxiv: 0808.2870 · arxiv_version: 0808.2870v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0808.2870 · pith_short_12: J74UZ77B44QR · pith_short_16: J74UZ77B44QRZKLO · pith_short_8: J74UZ77B
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J74UZ77B44QRZKLO5EUP3HTRUV \
  | 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: 4ff94cffe1e7211ca96ee928fd9e71a540831447f55022d53cee6f0df54fdbc1
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "83485e39200d5c1d361c86a4ba734315b36090e0116248bf5479ea87b9fd3371",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-08-21T06:46:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cb329a58504426177775ba0702abbfcddd4e121af883ad44846b078b102beb2a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0808.2870",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}