Pith Number

pith:KV5NOOU6

pith:2015:KV5NOOU6C53PR5HR5EUMRJM4CU

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Detecting Stars at the Galactic Centre via Synchrotron Emission

Abraham Loeb, Idan Ginsburg, Ofer Cohen, Xiawei Wang

arxiv:1509.06251 v1 · 2015-09-21 · astro-ph.GA · astro-ph.HE

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\pithnumber{KV5NOOU6C53PR5HR5EUMRJM4CU}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:28:45.847767Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

557ad73a9e1776f8f4f1e928c8a59c1537e3e370726a09329bfaffb196036f9e

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.06251 · arxiv_version: 1509.06251v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.06251 · pith_short_12: KV5NOOU6C53P · pith_short_16: KV5NOOU6C53PR5HR · pith_short_8: KV5NOOU6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KV5NOOU6C53PR5HR5EUMRJM4CU \
  | 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: 557ad73a9e1776f8f4f1e928c8a59c1537e3e370726a09329bfaffb196036f9e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "61c5eda835a7dea6429fd52cde35ea6dbd8509dd5ebd88d3a708c48a9132ec2c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-21T14:55:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51c83c75b99f4ac1fbc472eafb0eabae463e6194e793da9256dae7229731e053"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.06251",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}