Pith Number

pith:M62S7DIJ

pith:2017:M62S7DIJASHBT7DOJXLPOJW5IF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Slowly Precessing Disk in the Nucleus of M31 as the Feeding Mechanism for a Central Starburst

A. Bouchez, A. M. Ghez, H. V. Peiris, J. R. Lu, K. E. Lockhart, R. M. Rich

arxiv:1710.01394 v2 · 2017-10-03 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{M62S7DIJASHBT7DOJXLPOJW5IF}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:28.082491Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

67b52f8d09048e19fc6e4dd6f726dd417e6dbe7c1b9c0e29c24cab81ec4db019

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.01394 · arxiv_version: 1710.01394v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.01394 · pith_short_12: M62S7DIJASHB · pith_short_16: M62S7DIJASHBT7DO · pith_short_8: M62S7DIJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/M62S7DIJASHBT7DOJXLPOJW5IF \
  | 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: 67b52f8d09048e19fc6e4dd6f726dd417e6dbe7c1b9c0e29c24cab81ec4db019

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "904f74d6cda7e7ed5c481b1fef9ae09dc4379433de8aced34e48aeadd4c5aceb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-03T21:37:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e3cafcedbeb92e04e75e362611975dac9ab885626d79cf896150b375e171c02"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.01394",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}