Pith Number

pith:P5NOHL4M

pith:2012:P5NOHL4MCMNPDGHUZQM4RGTI25

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Interstellar gas within $\sim 10$ pc of Sgr A$^*$

Katia Ferriere

arxiv:1201.6031 v1 · 2012-01-29 · astro-ph.GA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P5NOHL4MCMNPDGHUZQM4RGTI25}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:58:38.490844Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7f5ae3af8c131af198f4cc19c89a68d770ca0fb65f34ffb29156bb347fc9d6f7

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.6031 · arxiv_version: 1201.6031v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.6031 · pith_short_12: P5NOHL4MCMNP · pith_short_16: P5NOHL4MCMNPDGHU · pith_short_8: P5NOHL4M

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/P5NOHL4MCMNPDGHUZQM4RGTI25 \
  | 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: 7f5ae3af8c131af198f4cc19c89a68d770ca0fb65f34ffb29156bb347fc9d6f7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0a230d6d8ab5504d96a32075759087f1b7cee9839dde9752bf19d6a364388bdd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-29T11:56:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d106e808b96a59d626288c84448fa8ec8a5dcf77575694559c90326c22113f7a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.6031",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}