Pith Number

pith:L4MZSGUP

pith:2017:L4MZSGUPU5DXWOCUJ37T2D3DIA

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Formation and spatial distribution of hypervelocity stars in AGN outflows

Abraham Loeb, Xiawei Wang

arxiv:1706.04201 v2 · 2017-06-13 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L4MZSGUPU5DXWOCUJ37T2D3DIA}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:21:13.661058Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5f19991a8fa7477b38544eff3d0f634028c240167acdc633462f82bc0237b28f

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.04201 · arxiv_version: 1706.04201v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.04201 · pith_short_12: L4MZSGUPU5DX · pith_short_16: L4MZSGUPU5DXWOCU · pith_short_8: L4MZSGUP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/L4MZSGUPU5DXWOCUJ37T2D3DIA \
  | 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: 5f19991a8fa7477b38544eff3d0f634028c240167acdc633462f82bc0237b28f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e72c743a0ddca33ea29bfc69304cd01152f2f7aa0c2c891c9adad3e5d9519bb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-13T18:00:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7438471c9f567f823c3d078dff8aefa9caf47a613823580b377336413900f11e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.04201",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}