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pith:ORYFXGQ2

pith:2011:ORYFXGQ23DM2VMTBJCDW6FNJGL

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Distance and Kinematics of the Red Hypergiant VY CMa: VLBA and VLA Astrometry

B. Zhang, K. M. Menten, M. J. Reid, X. W. Zheng

arxiv:1109.3036 v1 · 2011-09-14 · astro-ph.SR

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:13:06.445545Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

74705b9a1ad8d9aab26148876f15a932e0aeaf2b86ff96078e5203c25f3dd470

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.3036 · arxiv_version: 1109.3036v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.3036 · pith_short_12: ORYFXGQ23DM2 · pith_short_16: ORYFXGQ23DM2VMTB · pith_short_8: ORYFXGQ2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ORYFXGQ23DM2VMTBJCDW6FNJGL \
  | 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: 74705b9a1ad8d9aab26148876f15a932e0aeaf2b86ff96078e5203c25f3dd470

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-14T09:56:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da2a808d200477012d5f5ab9de0dc59fe7b00c67f85f490943d15f121d2ff97e"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1109.3036",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}