Pith Number

pith:RM23NTAP

pith:2012:RM23NTAPPP3IPIWA4RTJ6OZ47T

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Deviation of Stellar Orbits from Test Particle Trajectories Around Sgr A* Due to Tides and Winds

Abraham Loeb (Harvard), Dimitrios Psaltis (Arizona), Gongjie Li (Harvard)

arxiv:1212.3342 v1 · 2012-12-13 · astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.EP · gr-qc

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\pithnumber{RM23NTAPPP3IPIWA4RTJ6OZ47T}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:52:38.470593Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b35b6cc0f7bf687a2c0e4669f3b3cfcc9c835b058938126748aa2e1eb4aded4

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.3342 · arxiv_version: 1212.3342v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.3342 · pith_short_12: RM23NTAPPP3I · pith_short_16: RM23NTAPPP3IPIWA · pith_short_8: RM23NTAP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RM23NTAPPP3IPIWA4RTJ6OZ47T \
  | 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: 8b35b6cc0f7bf687a2c0e4669f3b3cfcc9c835b058938126748aa2e1eb4aded4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3244a6e0633aa0ace545452ccf501ce04123efdf4a3b8c58542867f72e1f5c95",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP",
      "gr-qc"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.HE",
    "submitted_at": "2012-12-13T21:03:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35946cd5b5d4559f20922754cb83ecb54add4e7773168047be6d16816de440f4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.3342",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}