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pith:MLVMGECW

pith:2002:MLVMGECW6F7AIRFPGOAQD46DWY

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Closest Star Seen Orbiting the Supermassive Black Hole at the Centre of the Milky Way

A. Eckart, A.F.M. Moorwood, A.-M. Lagrange, C. Lidman, D. Rouan, E. Gendron, F. Lacombe, G. Rousset, J. Spyromilio, K.M. Menten, M. Hartung, M.J. Reid, M. Lehnert, N. Ageorges, N. Hubin, N. Mouawad, R. Genzel, R. Hofmann, R. Lenzen, R. Schodel, T. Alexander, T. Ott, W. Brandner

arxiv:astro-ph/0210426 v1 · 2002-10-18 · astro-ph

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Simulation-Based Prediction of Black Hole Fe K$\alpha$ Line Profiles

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First computed	2026-07-04T16:31:00.196838Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62eac31056f17e0444af338101f3c3b62f7a594453476c097c8698e7935430d4

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0210426 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0210426v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0210426 · pith_short_12: MLVMGECW6F7A · pith_short_16: MLVMGECW6F7AIRFP · pith_short_8: MLVMGECW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MLVMGECW6F7AIRFPGOAQD46DWY \
  | 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: 62eac31056f17e0444af338101f3c3b62f7a594453476c097c8698e7935430d4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ce9b775988c270b74a9e0ef832ae8bd27c381ee4d35f3df3af0ce9787f039cfd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-10-18T15:19:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d8463783a7979400698aeec5d83241245952e9fde7507ecdf413dc16af4113a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0210426",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}