Pith Number

pith:PAVB5GDO

pith:2012:PAVB5GDOQB4M44VTDKVO5CGNWH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The X-ray flaring properties of Sgr A* during six years of monitoring with Swift

J. Kennea, J. M. Miller, N. Degenaar, N. Gehrels M. T. Reynolds, R. Wijnands

arxiv:1210.7237 v2 · 2012-10-26 · astro-ph.HE

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\pithnumber{PAVB5GDOQB4M44VTDKVO5CGNWH}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:53:36.983879Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

782a1e986e8078ce72b31aaaee88cdb1d9c663273d92780879715cfb8d728d2c

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.7237 · arxiv_version: 1210.7237v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.7237 · pith_short_12: PAVB5GDOQB4M · pith_short_16: PAVB5GDOQB4M44VT · pith_short_8: PAVB5GDO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PAVB5GDOQB4M44VTDKVO5CGNWH \
  | 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: 782a1e986e8078ce72b31aaaee88cdb1d9c663273d92780879715cfb8d728d2c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d5ca3f3f732d454fd43231076af748cade5ba90b9ae38d1e9b2555a04d71b54c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-26T20:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "41550733243c0d02f3052a98a51e3f5d7cd7ca0884140486cdbcf2d668d1070f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.7237",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}