Pith Number

pith:M4SUDNMV

pith:2002:M4SUDNMVRGRDIJD6JUYQQWH3YY

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The Nuclear Bulge of the Galaxy. III. Large-Scale Physical Characteristics of Stars and Interstellar Matter

P.G. Mezger, R. Launhardt, R. Zylka

arxiv:astro-ph/0201294 v1 · 2002-01-17 · astro-ph

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Eccentric Stellar-mass Binary Black Holes: Population, Detectability, and Waveform Analysis in the LISA and LIGO Era

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T16:29:16.405936Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

672541b59589a234247e4d310858fbc6296b8f03ee7e79b3fa012fec21b3ee0e

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0201294 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0201294v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0201294 · pith_short_12: M4SUDNMVRGRD · pith_short_16: M4SUDNMVRGRDIJD6 · pith_short_8: M4SUDNMV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/M4SUDNMVRGRDIJD6JUYQQWH3YY \
  | 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: 672541b59589a234247e4d310858fbc6296b8f03ee7e79b3fa012fec21b3ee0e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "47bb7f5b03ff170ced8024532195b9ffc56b0ed9b9d7d8149417f495bc9328fe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-01-17T20:46:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0d3ae261619f19852adbf4b2c97c4d8e5e6d12aa028fb511a8380e55ae635ba5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0201294",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}