Pith Number

pith:NXSSX4FX

pith:2025:NXSSX4FXY5LVG2G7CA4ZY3TCKE

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Hypervelocity Stars Trace a Supermassive Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Charlie Conroy, Jiwon Jesse Han, Kareem El-Badry, Lars Hernquist, Nico Garavito-Camargo, Re'em Sari, Scott Lucchini, Warren Brown

arxiv:2502.00102 v2 · 2025-01-31 · astro-ph.GA

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\pithnumber{NXSSX4FXY5LVG2G7CA4ZY3TCKE}

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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	2026-07-05T10:25:16.764372Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6de52bf0b7c7575368df10399c6e6251247fc0afd5e3982e73767647d086bb32

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.00102 · arxiv_version: 2502.00102v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.00102 · pith_short_12: NXSSX4FXY5LV · pith_short_16: NXSSX4FXY5LVG2G7 · pith_short_8: NXSSX4FX

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NXSSX4FXY5LVG2G7CA4ZY3TCKE \
  | 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: 6de52bf0b7c7575368df10399c6e6251247fc0afd5e3982e73767647d086bb32

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cdfe5a04f99b8eb35b0c69b5f45cc4f70e0c283a89bf3f5c68944bf73d734438",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-31T19:00:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6fdfe7e2bb5e6c940d3bbaa1369621a824846f52ab38ef63e395874c458e35e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.00102",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}